NORTHUMBERLAND, Algernon Percy, 4 Duke of (younger son of 2 duke of Northumberland 1742–1817). b. Northumberland house, Charing Cross, London 15 Dec. 1792; educ. Eton; entered R.N. March 1805; midshipman Sept. 1805, lieut. 1811; served in Mediterranean to 1810; while acting captain of the Caledonia fought in an action off Toulon 1814; captain 19 Aug. 1815, when put on h.p.; cr. baron Prudhoe of Prudhoe castle, Northumberland 27 Nov. 1816; LL.D. Camb. 6 July 1835; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; succeeded his brother as 4 duke 11 Feb. 1847; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; R.A. of the Blue 11 Nov. 1850, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 13 Oct. 1862; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; a trustee of the British museum 24 April 1861; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 27 Dec. 1864; F.R.S. 9 April 1818; F.S.A. 10 April 1823; president of Royal Institution; president of Royal united service institution; president of Royal national lifeboat institution, gave premiums for improved boats; introduced the Victoria Regia 1838, which first flowered in England in a tank built for it at Sion house, Isleworth; bought the famous Camuccini collection of 74 paintings at Rome 1856. d. Alnwick castle, Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865. bur. in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. Numismatic Chronicle v 20 (1865); G.M. xviii 504–11 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi 177, 190, 213, 217 (1865) portrait; G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon monastery (1840); Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp. 129, 132, views of funeral, &c.; Waagen’s Galleries of art 1857, 265–69 and 465–74; O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 822.
NORTHUMBERLAND, George Percy, 5 Duke of (2 son of Algernon Percy, 1 earl of Beverley 1750–1830). b. Alnwick castle, Northumberland 22 June 1778; styled lord Louvain 1790–1830; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1799, LL.D. 1842; M.P. Beeralston 1799–1800; lieut. col. Northumberland regt. of militia 3 March 1804, col. 17 May 1804; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1804 to 10 Feb. 1806; commissioner for the affairs of India 6 April 1807 to 8 Sept. 1812; lord of the bed chamber to George IV 23 March 1826, and to William IV 24 July to Dec. 1830; succeeded as 2 earl of Beverley 21 Oct. 1830; captain of the yeomen of the guard 15 Jany. 1842 to 24 July 1846; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; succeeded his cousin as 5 duke of Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 29 April 1865. d. Alnwick castle 21 Aug. 1867. bur. beneath chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster abbey 30 Aug., personalty sworn under £350,000, 21 Sept. G.M. iv 532 (1867).
NORTHWICK, John Rushout, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Northwick 1739–1800). b. St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 16 Feb. 1770; educ. Hackney, London, and at Neufchatel; lived in Italy 1790–1800; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1800; a governor of Harrow school 1801 to death; the first man in Europe to receive the news of the victory of the Nile and that from Nelson himself at Palermo; F.S.A. 11 Dec. 1800; his celebrated gallery of pictures, 1881 in number, at Thirlestane, Cheltenham, was sold by auction for £95,725 26 July to 15 Aug. 1859; his cabinet of Greek coins and medals was sold by auction for £8,565, 5 Dec. to 17 Dec. 1859. d. Northwick park, near Morton in the Marsh 20 Jany. 1859. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii 195–212 (1854); A.R. (1859) 130–2, 181 and 466; Hours in the picture gallery at Thirlestane house (1843); Catalogue of the paintings the property of J. R. baron Northwick (1859).
NORTHWICK, George Rushout, 3 Baron (only son of hon. and rev. George Rushout, 1772–1842, rector of Burford, who took name of Bowles 20 June 1817). b. 30 Aug. 1811; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; cornet 1 life guards 18 Jany. 1833, captain 18 March 1842, placed on h.p. 4 June 1847; M.P. Evesham 1837–41; M.P. East Worcestershire 1847–59; lieut. col. Herefordshire militia 1853–62; chairman of Severn fishery board of conservators; succeeded his uncle as 3 baron 20 Jany. 1859. d. Upper Norwood 18 Nov. 1887. Times 21 Nov. 1887 p. 7.
NORTON, Bernard Gustavus. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March 1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 478 (1871).
NORTON, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan, d. Cape of Good Hope 1817). b. 11 South Audley st. London 1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then at Great George st. Westminster; m. (1) 30 July 1827 George Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she obtained a separation 1840, he d. 24 Feb. 1876; she m. (2) 1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he d. 15 Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.; author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem; The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847; Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye 1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863; Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose of Jericho, from the French 1869. d. 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed 1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. Songs, poems and verses by Helen, lady Dufferin (1894) p. 32 etc.; F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of Sheridan family (1873); P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the Sheridans ii 352–448 (1886); C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, second series (1893) 121–41 portrait; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 53–8 portrait, 355, 419, 457, 493; C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii 349–51 (1874); Graphic xv 624 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 595, 613 (1877) portrait; Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp. 101–110; Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xxiv 49, 67 (1878); Traits of character by a contemporary ii 317–42 (1860); S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. 1855 p. 761 portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers (1885) 101–3; Reynold’s Miscellany i 233 (1847) portrait.
NORTON, Daniel (1 son of William Norton of Uxbridge). b. 1806; timber merchant Wharf road, City road, London 1827; resided Northwood park, near Rickmansworth: first played cricket at lord Ebury’s seat, Moor park 1856; started the Northwood park club 1865, and played in all the matches; often engaged professionals to play for his team, paid Coleman to be his groundsman; in his other club at Wharf road he also played in the matches; owner of landed estates in Kent, Middlesex, Herts., and Hants. d. The Dell, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 10 Feb. 1888. Cricket 23 Feb. 1888 p. 30.
NORTON, Fleming, stage name of Frederic Mills (youngest son of Wm. Mills of Lindridge Worcs.) b. 1836 or 1837; gave an entertainment at Egyptian hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Fleming Norton’s musical and mimetic entertainment entitled Perkin’s picnic 1875; acted sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique theatre 20 Sept. 1879; the original capt. Flapper in Billee Taylor at Imperial theatre 30 Oct. 1880; a monologue entertainer and polyphonist; toured in Australia, New Zealand, the Straits Settlements, and India 1883–6; resided at 3 Olympia mansions, Kensington. d. 30 March 1895. bur. Highgate cemet. 3 April. Illust. sp. and dr. news xxv 583 (1886) portrait.
NORTON, George (son of John Norton of Shoreham, Sussex). b. 1791; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, Michel scholar 1815–6, M.A. 1810, fellow 1816–20; barrister I.T. 28 June 1816; appointed one of common pleaders of city of London; advocate general of Bombay 1825, of Madras 1827, retired 1854; first pres. of Madras univ.; author of Commentaries on the history, constitution, and chartered franchises of the city of London 1829, 3 ed. 1869; An exposition of the privileges of the city of London in regard to the claims of non-freemen to deal within its jurisdiction 1821; Rudimentals, a series of discourses on the principles of government, Madras 1841; Native education in India 1848; A new financial scheme for India 1857; Proselytism in India, with an account of the Tinnevelly slaughter 1859; Thought, its origin and operation 1876. d. Wyvols court, Swallowfield, near Reading 13 July 1876.
NORTON, George Chapple (2 son of Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland 1744–1820). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Winchester and Edinb. univ.; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825; a comr. of bankruptcy 1827–31; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth st. Whitechapel 19 April 1831, this court was closed 28 Dec. 1844; stipendiary magistrate Lambeth police court, Kennington lane 4 Jany. 1845–67; M.P. Guildford 1826–30; recorder of Guildford Oct. 1827 to death; m. 1827 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan. d. Wonersh park, Guildford 24 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 223, 595 (1875); Law Times lviii 349 (1875); Times 1, 4, 8, 18, 20, 23 June 1836.