NELSON, Thomas (younger son of Thomas Nelson 1780–1861). b. Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1822; entered his father’s publishing business 1840; established and had charge of the London branch 1844–6; superintended the manufacturing department at Hope park, Edinburgh, the firm employed about 500 people; invented a rotary press with curved stereotype plates fixed on cylinders 1850; established an American branch 1854; initiated a series of school-books written principally by himself; published the Royal Readers 1872; edited the Children’s Paper, which had a great sale; the Nelson’s premises at Hope park were completely destroyed by fire 1878, but new premises were built at Parkside, St. Leonard’s, within a year; became a partner in firm of Bartholomew and co., map engravers, Edinburgh; author of A class atlas of ancient geography 1867; author with Thomas Davies of New atlas of the world 1859. d. St. Leonard’s, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 20 Oct. 1892, leaving more than £1,000,000, bequeathed £50,000 for erection of a working men’s club.
NELSON, Sir Thomas James (eld. son of Thomas Nelson of Mark house, Walthamstow, Essex, d. 16 May 1883, aged 84). b. 18 Oct. 1826; ed. at City of London sch. and at college of Saxe-Coburg in Germany; solicitor in city of London 1848–62; solicitor to the city of London 18 Dec. 1862 to death; conducted the litigation respecting Epping Forest, lasting many years; knighted at Windsor castle 21 April 1880; chairman of Lower Thames valley main sewerage board, and of the Hampton Wick local board; acted as remembrancer of city of London during litigation between corporation and C. H. Robarts the remembrancer 1880–1. d. The Grove, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1885. bur. Teddington cemet. 13 Feb. Law Journal 14 Feb. 1885 p. 115; Law Times 14 Feb. 1885 p. 290.
NELSON, Walter (youngest child of John Wm. Nelson, sailmaker, Rotherhithe, and storekeeper of Deptford dockyard). b. 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Merchant Tailors’ school 1825 etc.; copied Rymer’s transcripts in the British Museum for the record commission 1834–7; clerk in the record office 1840; one of assistant keepers of public records at Carlton Ride 1853 to death. d. 11 Margaretta terrace, Chelsea, London 2 Aug. 1862. G.M. xiii 501 (1862).
NELSON, William (brother of Thomas Nelson 1822–92). b. Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1816; entered his father’s publishing business 1835; travelled in Scotland and England, taking orders for the firm’s publications 1836; the chief agent in extending the business; spent large sums of money restoring St. Bernard’s Well on the water of Leith, the Argyle tower, St. Margaret’s chapel, and the old Scottish parliament house in Edinburgh castle, which was re-opened by Princess Louise Oct. 1892; erected a memorial cross to Alexander III, the last of the Celtic kings, at Kinghorn in Fifeshire; was presented with freedom of burgh of Kinghorn July 1887. d. Salisbury Green, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 10 Sept. 1887. bur. in Grange cemetery. Sir Daniel Wilson’s William Nelson, a memoir with portrait; Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. xix pp. lviii–lxii; Bookseller Oct. 1887 p. 1002; D. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland (1869) 502–4.
NELSON, Wolfred (son of Wm. Nelson of the commissariat department, royal navy). b. Montreal 10 July 1792; obtained degree of M.D. Jany. 1811 and began practice at St. Denis, near Montreal; carried on a distillery and brewery at St. Denis; elected member of the assembly of Lower Canada for borough of William Henry 1827; chairman at a great meeting of delegates from six counties of Lower Canada held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, a warrant was issued against him for his violent speeches, he defended himself against the troops and defeated the 23rd regiment on 23 Nov. but was ultimately captured and kept a prisoner in Montreal gaol until 1838; practised medicine at Plattsburg, New York 1838–42, at Montreal 1842 to death; member of assembly for county of Richelieu 1845; chairman of the board of health 1847; inspector of prisons 1851, chairman of board of prison inspectors 1859; contributed to Medical Gazette 1844, and to other journals. d. Montreal 17 June 1863. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 295.
NEPEAN, Charles Widekind. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 26 Nov. 1830; lieut. col. 24 Aug. 1847 to death. d. Bombay 14 May 1853.
NEPEAN, Evan (4 son of sir Evan Nepean, 1 Bart. of Loders, Dorset, d. 2 Oct. 1822). b. 20 April 1800; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; minister of Grosvenor chapel, South Audley st. London 1830 to death; R. of Heydon, Norfolk 1831–61; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 3 Aug. 1848 to death; resident canon of Westminster 29 Aug. 1860 to death, installed 19 Sept.; author of A sermon on occasion of the funeral of the duke of Wellington 1852. d. Little Cloisters, Westminster abbey 13 March 1873. bur. in Westminster abbey 18 March. I.L.N. lxii 283 (1873).
NERINCKX, John. b. Ninove, Belgium Aug. 1776; ordained R.C. priest by a French bishop in a private room 1801; honorary chaplain of church of St. Aloysius, Clarendon sq. Somers Town, London 1830 to death; founded the schools attached to the church. d. 49 Clarendon sq. London 21 Dec. 1855. Tablet 29 Dec. 1855 p. 821.
NESBIT, Alfred Anthony (son of John Collis Nesbit 1818–62). b. 1854; partner in firm of Nesbit, Lansdell and co., analytical chemists at 38 Gracechurch st. London 1876–82, in business by himself at same address 1882–5; his patent for preventing the fraudulent alteration of cheques (No. 2184 of 1880) was well received but never used; patented an improved ink for obliterating postage stamps 1883; successful in colouring white flowers by causing them to absorb aniline dyes of various shades. d. 1894.
NESBIT, Anthony (son of Jacob Nesbit, farmer of Long Benton, near Newcastle). bapt. Long Benton 3 May 1778; under-master at Preston gr. sch. 1808–9; land surveyor and teacher of mathematics at Farnley, near Leeds 1810; set up a school at Bradford about 1814; kept a school in Oxford road, Manchester about 1821–41; started a school at 38 Lower Kennington lane, London about 1841; author of A complete treatise on practical land surveying, York 1810, 12 ed. 1870; Mensuration 1816; An introduction to English parsing 1817; A treatise on practical gauging, York 1822; A treatise on practical arithmetic, Liverpool 1826, second part London 1846; An essay on education 1841. d. 38 Lower Kennington lane, London 15 March 1859. bur. Norwood cemet.