NORMANBY, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2 Marquess of (only son of the preceding). b. 23 July 1819; styled viscount Normanby 1831–8, and earl of Mulgrave 1838–63; ensign Scots fusilier guards 9 Nov. 1838, sold out 29 Sept. 1843; major North York regt. of militia 1846–53; M.P. Scarborough 1847–51; contested Scarborough 19 July 1851; M.P. Scarborough 1852–7; comptroller of the household 23 July 1851 to 27 Feb. 1852, and treasurer 4 Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 7 Aug. 1851; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia Jany. 1858 to May 1866; second marquess of Normanby 28 July 1863; hon. col. Tower hamlets rifle volunteers 23 Dec. 1863; lord in waiting to the queen 8 May to 6 July 1866, and 17 Dec. 1868 to 17 Dec. 1869; high steward of Hull; capt. of hon. corps of gentlemen at arms 17 Dec. 1869 to Jany. 1871; governor and commander in chief of Queensland 8 April 1871 to 1874, of New Zealand 5 Sept. 1874 to 1878, and of Victoria 24 Feb. 1879 to April 1884; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874, G.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; G.C.B. 9 Jany. 1885. d. 6 Brunswick ter. Brighton 3 April 1890. bur. Lythe church, Whitby 10 April. Athenæum ii 504–6 (1877); W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 261 portrait; C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield i 306 (1852) portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533 portrait; I.L.N. xxxii 200 (1858) portrait, xlviii 144 (1866) portrait; Governor Normanby’s visit to Gympie, with account of the Gympie gold fields, Gympie (1873); The visit of his excellency the governor of the North. Auckland (1876).
NORMANDY, Alphonse René le Mire de. b. Rouen, France 23 Oct. 1809; educ. for the medical profession; studied chemistry in Germany under Gmelin; patented indelible inks and dies 1839; patented a method of hardening soap made from soft goods by the addition of sulphate of soda 1841; patented in 1851 an apparatus for distilling sea-water to obtain pure water for drinking, this is largely used on board ships, the manufacture of these stills is carried on by Normandy’s Patent marine ærated fresh water company near the Victoria docks, London; a consulting and analytical chemist some years; F.C.S. 20 May 1854; resided in England about 1843 to death; author of A guide to the alkali metrical chest 1849; Handbook of chemical analysis 1850, 2 ed. 1875; The chemical atlas 1855; The dictionaries of the chemical atlas 1857. d. Odin lodge, Clapham park, London 10 May 1864. G.M. i 813 (1864), ii 120 (1864); I.L.N. xlv 105, 106 (1864) portrait.
NORMANTON, Welbore Ellis Agar, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 earl of Normanton 1736–1809, who was archbishop of Dublin). b. 12 Nov. 1778; styled viscount Somerton to 1809; succeeded 14 July 1809; built a fine gallery at Somerley, near Ringwood, Hants 1854, for his collection of Italian, Spanish, French, and English paintings, gallery especially rich in sir Joshua Reynolds’ pictures. d. 3 Seamore place, London 26 Aug. 1868, personalty sworn under £700,000, 31 Oct. 1868. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 363–73; Register and Mag. of Biography Feb. 1869 p. 164; Times 27 Aug. 1868 p. 7.
NORRIS, Charles (younger son of John Norris of Marylebone, merchant). b. 24 Aug. 1779; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1797; cornet 13 dragoons 21 Feb. 1799, sold out 1800; resided at Tenby 1810 to death; published three numbers of The architectural antiquities of Wales, vol. 1, Pembrokeshire 1810, the 3 numbers were re-issued in one vol. 1811 under title of St. Davids, in a series of engravings illustrating the different ecclesiastical edifices of that ancient city; Etchings of Tenby 1812, containing 40 engravings drawn and etched by himself; author of An historical account of Tenby and its vicinity 1818, 2 ed. 1856. d. Tenby 16 Oct. 1858.
NORRIS, Edwin. b. Taunton 24 Oct. 1795; tutor to an English family in France and Italy; clerk in office of East India Co. London 1825–36; assistant secretary of Royal Asiatic society 1836, secretary 1859, hon. secretary and librarian 1861 to death, edited the Society’s Journal many years; translator in Foreign office 29 May 1847, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1866; an Assyriologist and one of the earliest decipherers of cuneiform inscriptions, deciphered the rock inscription of King Asoka near Kapur di Giri 1845; hon. Ph.D. Bonn for his discoveries in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions 1855; author of Outlines of a vocabulary of a few of the principal languages of western and central Africa 1841; A specimen of the Van language of West Africa 1851; The ancient Cornish drama, 2 vols. Oxford 1859; Assyrian dictionary, parts i–iii 1868–72; conducted The ethnographical library, 2 vols. 1853–4. d. 6 Michael’s Grove, Brompton, London 10 Dec. 1872, a bust of him placed in Shire hall, Taunton July 1876. Numismatic Chronicle xiv 19–24 (1874).
NORRIS, James (son of rev. Wm. Norris of Warblington, Hants.). b. Warblington 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1843; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815, fellow 10 Oct. 1822–43, bursar 1830, president 16 Sept. 1843 to death; the college purchased the Lee Grange estate in Bucks. for £57,500 June 1869. d. 16 April 1872. bur. in college cloisters, where is memorial tablet. T. Fowler’s History of Corpus Christi college (1893) 75, 304, 318–9, 326.
NORRIS, John Pilkington (son of Thomas Norris, physician). b. Chester 10 June 1823; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1848; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1881; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1849; an inspector of schools in Staffs., Shropshire, and Cheshire 6 Oct. 1849 to 1863, and in Kent and Surrey 1863–4; C. of Lewknor, Oxfordshire 1864; canon of Bristol 14 July 1865 to death; P.C. of Hatchford, Surrey 1864–70; V. of St. George, Brandon Hill, Bristol 1870; rural dean of Bristol 1876; V. of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol 1877–8; archdeacon of Bristol Aug. 1881 to death; examining chaplain to bishop Fraser of Manchester 1870–85; inspector of church training colleges 1871–6; appointed dean of Chichester 25 Dec. 1891, but died 4 days later; author of Translation of Demosthenes, De Corona 1849; The education of the people 1869; A key to the Gospels 1869; Manual of religious instruction, 3 vols. 1874; A key to the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles 1871, 3 ed. 1884; The new testament with introduction and notes 1880; Some account of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe 1882; A key to the epistles of St. Paul 1890. d. 7 Great George st. Bristol 29 Dec. 1891. bur. in the graveyard adjoining Bristol cathedral. The Biograph vi 64–6 (1881); I.L.N. 9 Jany. 1892 p. 38 portrait.
Note.—The inauguration of the building of the nave of Bristol cathedral was due to him, he also set on foot the scheme for the revival of the bishopric of Bristol and obtained the act of parliament legalizing it, he raised more than £113,000 for the cathedral, see and spiritual wants of the city of Bristol.
NORRIS, John Thomas (youngest son of Edmund Norris of Sutton Courtney). b. 1808; contested Abingdon 13 Dec. 1854 and 13 July 1865; M.P. Abingdon 1857–65. d. Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, Berks. 15 Jany. 1870. I.L.N. xxxiii 92, 94 (1858) portrait, lvi 131 (1870).
NORRIS, Sir William (4 son of Wm. Norris of Old Jewry, London). b. 7 Nov. 1793; barrister M.T. 29 June 1827; practised in India 1829; a puisne judge at Ceylon, chief justice there 1 Oct. 1835 to 7 March 1836; knighted at Whitehall 7 Nov. 1835; recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca 7 March 1836 to March 1847. d. Ashurst lodge, near Sunningdale, Berks. 7 Sept. 1859. bur. Sunninghill churchyard.