NORCOTT, Sir William Sherbrooke Ramsay (son of sir Amos Norcott, G.C.H.) b. Chelmsford 24 Dec. 1804; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 13 June 1822, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in Crimea 1854–5; commanded a wing of the rifle brigade at the Alma; at first bombardment of Sebastopol, medal with two clasps; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Dec. 1868; assistant adjutant general Cork 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Nov. 1867; lieut. governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1873 to 30 Sept. 1878; col. of 47 foot 20 March 1878 to 14 Sept. 1885; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1878; general 14 July 1879; col. commandant rifle brigade 14 Sept. 1885 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. St. Leonard’s-on-sea 23 Jany. 1886.
NORFOLK, Henry Charles Fitzalan Howard, 13 Duke of (only child of 12 duke of Norfolk 1765–1842). b. George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Aug. 1791; styled earl of Surrey 1815–42; M.P. Horsham 1829–32, the first Roman catholic to take the oath and his seat; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41; treasurer of the household 1837–41; P.C. 19 July 1837; captain of yeomen of the guard 5 July to 8 Sept. 1841; summoned to house of lords as baron Maltravers 11 Aug. 1841; succeeded as 13 duke 16 March 1842; earl marshall of England 16 March 1842; took the name of Fitzalan before Howard by R.L. 26 April 1842; master of the horse 1846–52; K.G. 4 May 1848; lord steward of the household 1853–4; president of royal botanical society; after the papal aggression in 1850 he abjured Romanism and conformed to the church of England, but was reconciled to R.C. religion on his death bed by canon Tierney, which fact is mentioned on his coffin plate. d. Arundel castle, Sussex 18 Feb. 1856. bur. in chapel attached to Arundel parish church 26 Feb. G.M. xlv 419 (1856); Burke’s Portrait gallery i 141 (1833) portrait of Charlotte, duchess of Norfolk, d. 1870; Doyle’s Baronage ii 603 (1886) portrait.
NORFOLK, Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14 Duke of (1 son of preceding). b. Great Stanhope st. London 7 Nov. 1815; styled lord Fitz-Alan 1815–42; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet royal horse guards 9 Jany. 1835, retired as captain; M.P. Arundel 1837–51; formally joined R.C. church in Paris 1842; styled earl of Arundel and Surrey 1842–56; M.P. Limerick 1851–2; succeeded as 14 Duke 18 Feb. 1856; declined the Garter when offered to him by lord Palmerston 1856; earl marshall of England 18 Feb. 1856; edited Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife 1857, 2 ed. 1861; author of A few remarks on the condition of British catholics 1847; Letter on the bull In Cœna Domini 1848; Observations on diplomatic relations with Rome 1848. d. Arundel castle, Sussex 25 Nov. 1860. bur. in Fitzalan chapel, Arundel 6 Dec. G.M. x 98 (1861); I.L.N. xviii 77 (1851) portrait, xxxvii 539, 544 (1860) portrait.
NORGATE, Thomas Starling (son of Elias Norgate, surgeon). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1772; educ. Norwich gr. sch. 1780–8, and New college, Hackney; student at Lincoln’s inn; wrote for the Analytical review till it ceased 1799; wrote the half-yearly retrospect of domestic literature in the Monthly magazine 1797–1807; wrote nearly a seventh part of Arthur Aikin’s Annual review 1802–8; wrote for the Monthly review; helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich horticultural society 1829; edited the East Anglian, a weekly newspaper published at Norwich 1830–3; edited sir W. Jones’ The principles of government 1797; author of Essays, tales and poems, Norwich 1795. d. Hethersett, Norfolk 7 July 1859.
NORGATE, Thomas Starling (4 son of the preceding). b. 30 Dec. 1807; educ. Norwich gr. sch. and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; C. of Briningham 1832, C. of Clay-next-the-Sea, and C. of Banningham, all in Norfolk; R. of Sparham, Norfolk 21 April 1840 to death; author of Batrachomyomachia, an Homeric fable reproduced in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Odyssey in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Iliad in dramatic blank verse 1864. d. Sparham 25 Nov. 1893.
NORMAN, Alexander (3 son of Luke Norman of Dublin). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 26 May 1858; had a large equity practice; resided 26 Rutland square, Dublin; while on a visit d. of heart disease by the roadside at Lynton 14 Sept. 1870. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 22 Sept. The North Devon Journal 22 Sept. 1870 p. 6, 29 Sept. p. 5; Law Journal v 547–48 (1870).
NORMAN, George (eld. son of James Norman, surgeon at Bath). b. 2 Sept. 1782; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; V.P. British medical assoc.; surgeon to the Casualty hospital, Bath 1817–26; first surgeon of Bath united hospital 1826–57, his bust placed in the hospital 1858; presented with a testimonial from the working men of Bath; sent papers to the Medico-chirurgical transactions; for many years he made £4,000 per annum. d. 1 Circus, Bath 17 Jany. 1861, memorial window placed in Abbey church, Bath Dec. 1862. Lancet i 127 1861.
NORMAN, George Warde (son of George Norman 1756–1830, sheriff of Kent 1793). b. Bromley common, Kent 20 Sept. 1793; educ. Eton 1805–10; in business with his father as merchants in the Norway timber trade 1810, carried on the business alone 1824–30, when he transferred it to Sewell & Co.; a director of Bank of England 1821–72; examined before parliamentary committees on currency 1832, 1840, and 1848; an exchequer bill comr. 1831, a public works loan comr. 1842–76; the last surviving original member of the Political economy club, founded 1821; a director of the Sun Insurance office 1830–64; great friend of George Grote, who wrote the History of Greece at his suggestion; author of Remarks upon some prevailing errors with respect to currency and banking 1833, republished 1838; Letter to Charles Wood, esq. on money and the means of economising the use of it 1841; An examination of some prevailing opinions as to the pressure of taxation in this and other countries 1850, 4 ed. 1864; Papers on various subjects 1869; A memoir on the life of the rev. F. Beadon 1879. d. 90 Common, Bromley, Kent 4 Sept. 1882. Economist 9 Sept. 1882 p. 1125, 30 Sept. pp. 1209–11.
NORMAN, John Paxton (eld. son of John Norman of Claverham house, Gatton, Somerset 1777–1837). b. Congresbury, Somerset 21 Oct. 1819; educ. Exeter gram. sch. and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; practised as a special pleader; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; one of judges of high court of Bengal May 1861 to death; filled office of chief justice temporarily 1864 and 1871; author of The law and practice of copyright 1851; A treatise on letters patent for inventions 1853; with E. T. Hurlstone Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; stabbed by an assassin on the steps of his court at Calcutta 20 Sept. 1871. d. in a house near the court at 1 a.m. 21 Sept. Graphic iv 375, 381 (1871) portrait; I.L.N. lix 333, 334, 618 (1871) portrait.
NORMANBY, Constantine Henry Phipps, 1 Marquess of (1 child of H. Phipps, 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 15 May 1797; styled viscount Normanby 1812–31; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1818; M.P. Scarborough 1818–20; M.P. Higham Ferrers, Northants 1822–6; M.P. Malton, Yorkshire 1826–30; succeeded as 2 earl Mulgrave 7 April 1831; governor of Jamaica 1832–4; P.C. 30 May 1832; G.C.H. 1832; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 July to 30 Nov. 1834; lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9, sworn in 11 May 1835; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1835–9; cr. marquess of Normanby, co. York 25 June 1838; sec. of state for colonial department 20 Feb. to 20 Aug. 1839, and for home department 30 Aug. 1839 to 6 Sept. 1841; ambassador to Paris 1846–52; G.C.B. 10 Dec. 1847; K.G. 19 Feb. 1851; envoy to Florence 1854–8; author of Matilda, a tale of the day, 2 vols. 1825; Yes and no, a novel, 2 vols. 1827; The English in France 1828; The contrast, a novel 3 vols. 1832; A year of revolution from a journal kept in Paris in 1848, 2 vols. 1857; The congress and the cabinet 1859, 4 ed. 1860; An historical sketch of Louise de Bourbon, duchess regent of Parma 1861; A vindication of the duke of Modena from the charges of Mr. Gladstone 1861, 2 ed. 1861. d. 9 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London 28 July 1863. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 331–3 portrait; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 153–9; St. Stephens, By Mask (1839) 164–72; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery v (1834) portrait; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 124 portrait; Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii 92 (1846) portrait; I.L.N. iv 101 (1844) portrait; J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii 607 (1884) portrait.