NORTH, Brownlow (only son of Charles Augustus North 1785–1825, rector of Alverstoke, Hants.). b. Winchester house, Chelsea, 6 Jany. 1810; appointed registrar of diocese of Winchester 1817 in reversion upon the death of his father; educ. Eton 1819–25; sent to Corfu 1825; travelled with a tutor in France and Italy; served in Don Pedro’s army at Oporto 1832–3; matric. from Magd. coll. Oxf. 21 March 1839, B.A. 1842; conducted evangelical meetings in Scotland from 1855; formally recognised as an evangelist by the Free church of Scotland 1859; took part in revivalist meetings in Ulster 1859; preached in London 20 Dec. 1859 to May 1860; sometimes gave discourses in drawing rooms; author of Ourselves, a picture selected from the history of the children of Israel 1865, 10 ed. 1888; Yes or no, Genesis xxiv 1–58, 1867, 3 ed. 1871; The rich man and Lazarus 1869; The prodigal son, or the way home 1871. d. Tullichewan castle, Dumbartonshire, the residence of Mr. James Campbell 9 Nov. 1875. bur. Dean cemet. Edinb. B. North, Records and Recollections. By K. Moody-Stuart (1878) portrait; J. Baillie’s B. North, esq. (1876).
NORTH, Charles Napier (eld. son of Roger North, captain 71 foot, d. 1822). b. 12 Jany. 1817; ensign 6 foot 20 May 1836, lieut. 28 Dec. 1838; served against the Arabs at Aden 1840–1; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 7 Jany. 1842, major 19 June 1857; served in Punjab war 1849; deputy judge advocate of Havelock’s column in the Indian mutiny from 21 July 1857 until the arrival of sir Colin Campbell’s force at Lucknow; invalided home Jany. 1858; colonel in the army 30 March 1865, sold out 26 Oct. 1868; author of Journal of an English officer in India 1858. d. Bray, co. Wicklow 20 Aug. 1869. bur. in cemetery at Aldershot.
NORTH, Frederick (eld. son of Frederick F. North). b. Hastings 2 July 1800; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; a student of the Inner Temple; M.P. Hastings 1831–7, 1854–65, and 1868 to death. d. Hastings 29 Oct. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 266 (1869).
NORTH, Isaac William (son of rev. Henry North, assistant minister of Welbeck chapel, London, who d. 16 April 1838). b. St. Marylebone, London 28 July 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of Fulham, Middlesex; chaplain of the Isles of Scilly 1841–51; V. of Holy Trinity, Greenwich 1851 to death; author of Sermons on the liturgy 1844; A sermon preached at the visitation of the archdeacon of Cornwall 1849; A week in the Isles of Scilly 1850, revised and rewritten by L. H. Courtney 1867; Sermons preached in Trinity church, Greenwich 1854. d. Lyndhurst, Hampshire 12 Aug. 1881. Guardian xxxvi 1156 (1881).
NORTH, John (son of Benjamin North of Woodstock). b. 1790; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Oxfordshire militia; had charge of recruits and French prisoners at Bristol to 1814; practised in London, chiefly in midwifery and diseases of women and children; lecturer on these subjects at Westminster hospital and then at Middlesex hospital from 1838; with R. Macleod edited The Medical and physical journal 1829–30; author of Practical observations on the convulsions of infants 1826. d. 9a Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 March 1873. Lancet 29 March 1873 p. 465.
NORTH, John. b. 1852; conductor of Huddersfield choral soc., of the Glee and madrigal soc., and of the Philharmonic soc. to death; choirmaster Huddersfield parish church to death. d. Spring-bank, Fartown, Huddersfield 12 Oct. 1891.
NORTH, John Sidney (2 son of lieut. general sir Charles William Doyle, G.C.H. 1770–1842). b. Alnwick 28 May 1804; educ. Sandhurst; ensign 11 foot 1 Feb. 1821; capt. 87 foot 22 Nov. 1827, placed on h.p. 17 April 1835, sold out 1837; cr. D.C.L. Oxford univ. 12 June 1839; lieut. col. 2 Tower Hamlets militia 1836; lieut. col. Oxfordshire rifle volunteers 1 May 1860, hon. col. 26 March 1873 to death; by R.L. took name of North instead of Doyle 20 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1845; M.P. Oxfordshire 1852–85; voted in the minority of 53 who censured free trade Nov. 1852; P.C. 3 April 1886; m. 18 Nov. 1835 Susan North, 2 dau. of 3 earl of Guildford, she was b. Waldershare, near Dover 6 Feb. 1797, became baroness North by termination of the abeyance 10 Sept. 1841, and d. Putney Hill, Surrey 5 March 1884, bur. Wroxton church, near Banbury 11 March; he d. 11 Oct. 1894. Graphic 20 Oct. 1894 p. 454 portrait; Times 12 Oct. 1894 p. 5.
NORTH, Marianne (eld. dau. of Frederick North of Rougham, Norfolk, M.P. for Hastings). b. Hastings 24 Oct. 1830; resided abroad 1847–50; travelled with her father in Syria and Egypt 1865; painted flowers in Canada, U.S. of America, Jamaica and Brazil July 1871 to Sept. 1873; visited Teneriffe 1875; travelled round the world Aug. 1875 to March 1877, and in India 1878–9; exhibited her drawings at a room in Conduit st. London, summer of 1879, after which she presented them to the Botanical gardens at Kew, where a gallery designed by James Fergusson was built for them and opened 9 July 1882; travelled in Borneo, Australia, and New Zealand 1880–2, in South Africa 1882–3; painted araucarias in Chili 1884–5; five species of flowers, four of which she first made known in Europe, have been named after her; resided at Alderley, Gloucs. 1886 to death. d. Mount house, Alderley 30 Aug. 1890. bur. Alderley, bust by Conrad Dressler placed in inner room of the North gallery, Kew March 1894. Recollections of a happy life, the autobiography of M. North, edited by her sister Mrs. J. A. Symonds, 2 vols. (1892) 2 portraits; I.L.N. lxxx 616 (1882) portrait and 13 Sept. 1890 p. 342 portrait.
NORTH, Thomas (son of Thomas North of Burton End, Melton Mowbray, Leics.) b. Melton Mowbray 24 Jany. 1830; clerk in Paget’s bank, Leicester about 1845–72; hon. secretary of Leicestershire architectural society and editor of its Transactions 1861 to death, to which he contributed more than 30 papers; F.S.A. 1875; author of Tradesmen’s tokens, Leicestershire 1857; A chronicle of the church of St. Martin in Leicester during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth 1866; The church bells of Leicestershire 1876, of Northamptonshire 1878, of Rutland 1880, of Lincoln 1882, of Bedfordshire 1883, and of Hertfordshire 1886, six volumes; English bells and bell lore 1888; The accounts of the churchwardens of St. Martin’s, Leicester 1489–1844, 1884. d. The Plas, Llanfairfechan, North Wales 27 Feb. 1884. Transactions of the Leicestershire architectural society vi 91–3 (1885); Church Bells 8 March 1884 p. 318.
NORTH, William. b. Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham, then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham v. Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827; author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. d. 6 March 1855. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 32 (1862).