NEILSON, Walter Montgomery (son of James Beaumont Neilson 1792–1865). b. Glasgow 1819; partner with Mr. Kerr in the Hyde Park locomotive works, Glasgow, for making land and marine engines; commenced making locomotives 1842; supplied 1,200 locomotives to India 1857 etc.; succeeded to Queenshill estate, Kirkcudbrightshire 1865; colonel of 6 Lanarkshire volunteer corps 9 Sept. 1874 to 2 July 1887; grand master of freemasons Glasgow province; owner of Monte Picini estate, near Florence, where he cultivated vines; M.I.C.E. 3 April 1860. d. Queenshill 8 July 1889. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. c 400–1 (1890).
NEISH, Thomas. b. 1789; insurance broker in the Cowgate, Dundee 1807; partner with David Smart to 1826, when they failed; a dealer in flax and other Russian produce to his death; one of the first in Dundee to import jute, which he sold for upwards of 30 years after its introduction; vice consul for Russia in Dundee many years; became tacks-man of the shore dues in 1817 at a rental of £5605; took a prominent part in proceedings of the Dundee chamber of commerce. d. 25 April 1864. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 235–6.
NELIGAN, John Moore (son of a physician). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary June 1815; M.D. Edinb. 1836; M.D. Dublin 1853; M.R.C.P. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1853; practised at Clonmel, moved to Cork; physician in Dublin 1840 to death; physician to Jervis st. hospital 1841; lectured on materia medica 1841–6, and on medicine 1846–7 in the school, Peter st. Dublin; edited the Dublin quarterly journal of medical science 1849–61; author of Medicines, their uses and mode of administration 1844, 7 ed. 1867; The diagnosis and treatment of eruptive diseases of the scalp 1848; A practical treatise on diseases of the skin 1852, 2 ed. 1866; Atlas of cutaneous diseases 1855; edited R. J. Graves’s Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine, 2 ed. 1848, 4 ed. 1884. d. Clonmel house, near Blackrock, Dublin 24 July 1863. C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 528, 593, 637, 692; Dublin quarterly journal of medical science Aug. 1863 pp. 255–8.
NELSON, Sir Alexander Abercromby. b. Walmer, Kent 30 June 1814; ensign 40 foot 6 March 1835, captain 31 July 1846 to 31 Dec. 1847; served at Kandahar and in Afghanistan 1841–2, and at battle of Haidarabad 24 March 1843; D.A.A.G. at Portsmouth 1855–6; brigade major at Portsmouth 1856–7; D.A.G. in Jamaica 9 Dec. 1864 to 27 Oct. 1866, with lieut. Herbert Brand tried George William Gordon by court martial in Jamaica for high treason and caused him to be hanged 23 Oct. 1865, Nelson and Brand were tried for murder at central criminal court London 10 April 1867 and acquitted, but lord chief justice Cockburn made strong remarks as to the evidence on which Gordon had been sentenced to death; A.A.G. Cork district 1867; A.A.G. Gibraltar 1873–6; lieut. col. in the army 9 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 June 1877; lieutenant governor of Guernsey 1 May 1879–83; M.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 10 Oct. 1883; C.B. 29 May 1875, K.C.B. 30 May 1891. d. Walmer, Bath road, Reading 28 Sept. 1893. Charge of lord chief justice Cockburn in the case of The queen against Nelson and Brand (1867); Irving’s Annals (1876) 764, 766, 771.
NELSON, Alfred (son of Mr. Nelson, actor). b. about 1830; first appeared at theatre royal, Bristol, under Mrs. Macready’s management; appeared as Horatio in Hamlet, Haymarket theatre, London 29 July 1865; with his father and other relatives arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment, with which they travelled in Australia, America, and Canada; played at Liverpool; played Jack Scroggins in Burnand’s Morden Grange at Queen’s theatre 4 Dec. 1869; acted in Tom Taylor’s Twixt Axe and Crown at Queen’s 22 Jany. 1870 for 9 months, and in My wife’s dentist 300 nights; played Andrew Duvernay in Sir Charles Young’s Montcalm 28 Sept. 1872 at Queen’s theatre; played Duke of Norfolk in W. S. Raleigh’s Queen and cardinal at Haymarket 26 Oct. 1881, the Duke in A Midsummer night’s dream at Drury Lane 13 March 1883, and Mr. Gibson in The ticket of leave man at Her Majesty’s 14 April 1884; teacher of elocution at Guildhall school of music, London 1880 to death; organised successful Students’ recitals. d. 40 Lordship lane, Tottenham 5 March 1894. bur. Old West Norwood cemet. 8 March. E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 375, 417, 526, 549, 560 (1891).
NELSON, Ann. Proprietor or had an interest in the greater number of coaches running into Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk; kept the Bull inn 25 Aldgate high st. London 1824 to death. d. 1853. G.M. Sept. 1871 p. 497.
NELSON, Arthur Marsh. b. 1811; played leading parts in the legitimate drama in the provincial and minor theatres; became a talking clown; a clever musician and great favourite; made his last appearance in London at Alhambra palace. d. Bromley 28 July 1860.
NELSON, Charles Gudgeon. Entered R.N. 1845; lieut. 28 Feb. 1854; served in Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; prepared prince Alfred, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, for the naval profession 1858, and for his lieutenants examination 1863; commander 24 Nov. 1862; one of her majesty’s gentlemen ushers 27 Oct. 1862 to death; commanded the President, 31 guns, on the home station 1869–70; retired as captain 1 Oct. 1873; settled at Godalming, became well known in horticultural circles; his brother, the rev. J. Nelson, bequeathed to him a unique collection of bulbs, which he much increased. d. Holme lodge, Godalming, Surrey 20 April 1892.
NELSON, Horatia (dau. of Horatio, lord Nelson 1758–1805, by Emma, lady Hamilton 1761–1815). b. England 30 Jany. 1801; lord Nelson when dying said ‘Remember I leave lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country’; lord Nelson left her the interest of £4,000 by his will 1805; resided with her mother at Merton, Surrey to 1808; was with her mother when she died at Calais 15 Jany. 1815; lived with lord Nelson’s sister 1815–22; m. 19 Feb. 1822 at Burnham, Norfolk, rev. Philip Ward, vicar of Tenterden, Kent, d. 16 Jany. 1859; known as Mrs. Horatia Nelson Ward. d. Beaufort villa, Woodrising, Pinner 6 March 1881.
NELSON, Hugh (son of Robert Nelson of Larne). b. in Ulster 1830; made a fortune in the lumber trade in British Columbia; member for city of New Westminster in Canadian parliament; a member of the dominion senate; lieutenant governor of British Columbia 8 Feb. 1887–91; took part in Canadian International fisheries’ exhibition 1883. d. at residence of his sister, Mrs. James Murray 6 Cedars road, Clapham, Surrey, 3 March 1893.