NORTH, William. b. 17 Oct. 1811; member of firm of Payne, Eddison, and Ford solicitors, Leeds 1849; engaged in carrying out the Leeds and North Midland railway; the first secretary of the Midland railway company 1844; founded firm of North and Sons, solicitors, Leeds 1858; legal adviser of the Yorkshire banking company from its formation to his death, a director to 1880; steward to earl of Mexborough for his five manors. d. Potternewton, near Leeds 24 July 1883. bur. Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds. Law Times 11 Aug. 1883 p. 285.
NORTH, William (2 son of George North of St. John’s, Brecon). b. 1808; educ. Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1830–5; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of St. John, Brecon 1833–40; professor of Latin in St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–62; R. of Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire 10 Dec. 1840 to death; archdeacon of Cardigan and prebendary of Llandyfriog in St. David’s cathedral 1860 to death; author of A charge to the clergy 1865. d. Treforgan, Cardigan 7 June 1893.
NORTHAMPTON, Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2 Marquess of (2 son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). b. Stoke park, Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt. Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton 1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30; succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton 1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30 Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833; The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835. d. Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. bur. Castle Ashby 25 Jany. P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus (1847) part 3 pp. 1–24; H. Drummond’s Noble British families i 12–6 (1846); G.M. xxxv 425–9 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 59, 60 (1851) portrait; Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp. 110–11; Doyle’s Baronage ii 631 (1886) portrait; Times 18 Jany. 1851 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.
NORTHBOURNE, Sir Walter Charles James, 1 Baron (son of John James, minister plenipotentiary to Holland, d. 4 June 1818). b. 3 June 1816; educ. Westminster school 1826–33, and Christ Church, Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; succeeded his grandfather as second baronet 8 Oct. 1829; by his marriage in 1841 came into the Ellison properties in Gateshead, Hebbern and the neighbourhood; M.P. Hull 1837–47; sheriff of Kent 1855; a commissioner on the constitution and working of the ecclesiastical courts 1880; a trustee of the national gallery; cr. baron Northbourne of Betteshanger, Kent 5 Nov. 1884. d. Betteshanger, near Sandwich 4 Feb. 1893. Daily Graphic 9 Feb. 1893 p. 8 portrait.
NORTHBROOK, Francis Thornhill Baring, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir Thomas Baring, 2 bart. 1790–1848). b. Calcutta 20 April 1796; educ. Winchester and Christ Church, Oxf., double first class and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; capt. North Hants. regt. of militia 1 July 1818; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; M.P. Portsmouth 1826–65; a lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; joint secretary to the treasury 6 June to 17 Nov. 1834, and 21 April 1835 to Aug. 1839; chancellor of the exchequer 26 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sept. 1841; P.C. 26 Aug. 1839; succeeded as 3 baronet 3 April 1848; first lord of the admiralty 18 Jany. 1849 to 27 Feb. 1852; F.R.S. 22 Sept. 1849; cr. baron Northbrook of Stratton, county of Southampton 4 Jany. 1866. d. of apoplexy Stratton park, near Winchester 6 Sept. 1866. bur. Michelde church, Hants. 13 Sept. G.M. ii 543–4 (1866).
NORTHCOTE, Stafford Henry, 1 Earl of Iddesleigh (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1830, M.P. Haytesbury 1826–30). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; educ. Eton 1831–6, rowed bow oar in the Eton eight 1835; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 3 March 1836, scholar 1836–42, rowed in the college boat 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1863; private secretary to W. E. Gladstone, the vice-president of board of trade 30 June 1842 to 1845; legal assistant at board of trade Feb. 1845 to Aug. 1850; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; one of secretaries of Great Exhibition 3 Jany. 1850 to Oct. 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 March 1851; C.B. 17 Oct. 1851; G.C.B. 20 April 1880; a comr. for reorganising board of trade Dec. 1852 to March 1853; M.P. Dudley 1855–7; contested North Devon 6 April 1857; M.P. Stamford 1858–66; M.P. North Devon 1866–85; financial sec. to the treasury Jany. to June 1859; member of public schools commission 18 July 1862, and of endowed schools commission 20 Dec. 1865; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; secretary for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; chairman of Hudson’s Bay company Jany. 1869, governor March 1869 to March 1874; one of the six comrs. to arrange matters in dispute between Great Britain and the United States 13 Feb. 1871, the treaty of Washington was signed 8 May 1871; president of commission to inquire into working of friendly societies 14 Jany. 1871; chancellor of the exchequer 18 Feb. 1874 to April 1880; abolished the sugar duties of £2,000,000, 1874; applied an annual sinking fund of 28 millions to reduction of the national debt 1875; exempted incomes of £150 from income tax instead of £100 as before 1876; carried his Savings’ bank bill 1875, his Friendly societies’ bill 1875, and his Public works loan bill 1878; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1875; leader of the house of commons 8 Feb. 1877 to 24 March 1880; led the opposition April 1881 to June 1885; first lord of the treasury June 1885 to Feb. 1886; created viscount Saint Cyres of Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, and earl of Iddesleigh 3 July 1885; president of commission to inquire into depression of trade 29 Aug. 1885, the last report dated 21 Dec. 1886; presented by members of house of commons with a service of plate 8 March 1886; foreign secretary 27 July 1886 to 4 Jany. 1887; lord lieutenant of Devon 8 Jany. 1886 to death; lord rector of univ. of Edinb. 3 Nov. 1883 to death; author of The case of sir Eardley Wilmot 1847, 2 ed. 1847; A short review of the navigation laws of England. By A Barrister 1849, 2 ed. 1849; A statement connected with the election of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford in 1847, 1852, and 1853, 1853; Twenty years of financial policy 1862; The pleasures, the dangers, and the uses of desultory reading 1885; Lectures and essays 1887. d. in lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. bur. Upton Pyne, Devon 18 Jany., two statues by sir E. Boehm, R.A., one in house of commons vestibule, the other on Northernhay, Exeter; personalty sworn under £23,000 March 1887. A. Lang’s Life of sir S. Northcote 2 vols. (1890) 2 portraits; C. Worthy’s Life of earl of Iddesleigh (1887) portrait.
NORTHESK, George John Carnegie, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 earl of Northesk 1794–1878). b. Longwood, Hants. 1 Dec. 1843; styled lord Rosehill 1843–78; cornet 1 dragoons 10 June 1862; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Nov. 1862, captain 26 March 1873, sold out 27 June 1874; succeeded as 9 earl 5 Dec. 1878; a representative peer for Scotland Feb. 1885; made a collection of flint prehistoric weapons, which he lent to the museum of science and arts Edinb., and to the city museum, Winchester; F.S.A. 30 Nov. 1871, vice-president. d. Longwood house, near Winchester 10 Sept. 1891. Proc. of Society of Antiquaries xiv 136 (1892).
NORTHEY, Francis Vernon (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). b. 1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60 foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5 July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand; mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and d. 7 April 1879. I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879) portrait; Graphic xix 584 (1879) portrait.
NORTHMORE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve house, near Exeter 1735–77). b. Cleve house 1766; educ. Tiverton and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; F.S.A. 19 May 1791; contested Exeter 20 June 1818, and Barnstaple 12 Dec. 1832; discovered the ossiferous nature of Kent’s cavern at Torquay about 1824; published Plutarch’s Treatise upon the distinction between a friend and flatterer 1793; Memoirs of Planetes, or a sketch of the laws and manners of Makar. By Philelentherus Devoniensis 1795; Washington, or liberty restored, a poem in ten books 1809, Baltimore 1809; Of education founded upon principles, Part the first, Time previous to the age of puberty 1800, no more published. d. Furzebrook House, near Axminster 20 or 29 May 1851. I.L.N. xviii 545 (1851).
NORTHROP, Flora (dau. of Mr. Macdonald). Principal of the Royal school for officers’ daughters at Castleton, Isle of Man; went to U.S. of America 1885 where she suffered great reverses. d. of starvation and of being frozen to death New York 31 Dec. 1893.