NOTTAGE, George Swan. b. London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; m. 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. d. Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait, lxxxv 444 (1884) portrait; City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp. 2–3, 6, 15 April 1885 pp. 2–3.
NOTTIDGE, William. b. 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. d. Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. bur. at Bermondsey 23 March. G.M. xxxix 550 (1853).
NOVELLO, Vincent (son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian). b. 240 Oxford road, now Oxford st. London 6 Sept. 1781; a chorister at chapel of Sardinian embassy, Duke st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1793–7; organist of Portuguese embassy chapel in South st. Grosvenor sq. 1797–22; taught the piano at Campbell’s school in Brunswick sq. 27 years, and at Hibbert’s school, Clapton 25 years; founded firm of Novello & Co. music publishers 1811; his son Joseph Alfred became music publisher at 67 Frith st. Soho 1829; pianist and conductor for the Italian opera at the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1812; one of the 30 original members of Philharmonic soc. 1812, pianist to the society, afterwards conductor, his cantata Rosalba was produced by the society 1834; the Manchester prize for the best glee of a cheerful nature was awarded to his Old May Morning 1832; helped to found the Choral harmonists’ society, which first met 2 Jany. 1833, and the Classical harmonists’ society; organist at the musical festival in Westminster abbey 1834; organist of Roman catholic chapel in Moorfields 1840–3; member of the Royal soc. of musicians where he played the viola; lived at Nice 1849 to death; published Collection of sacred music as performed at the Portuguese chapel 1811; A collection of motetts with accompaniment for the organ and piano 1815, twelve books; Twelve easy masses, 3 vols. 1816; Mozart’s masses arranged 1819; The evening service 1822, twelve books; Haydn’s masses arranged 1823; Studies in madrigalian scoring 1841, eight books; Novello’s Cathedral choir book 1848; The Fitzwilliam music, selected from the Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, 5 vols 1854; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music, original and arranged. d. Nice 9 Aug. 1861, memorial window placed in north transept of Westminster abbey 1863. Mary Cowden-Clarke’s Life of Vincent Novello (1864) portrait; A short history of cheap music, Novello, Ewer & Co. (1887) portrait.
Note.—On 17 Aug. 1808 he m. Mary Sabilla Hehl who d. Nice 25 July 1854. She was author of A day in Stowe gardens 1825, and wrote the words to her husband’s songs Doubt not my love 1835, Sterne’s Maria 1840, and The infant’s prayer 1845.
NOVERRE, Arthur. b. London 1815; in a government office; educ. St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Stanmore, Middlesex 1838–59; removed to 25 South st. Park lane, London 1859 where he had a high class practice; fellow Med. and Chir. soc. 1849, member of council 1870–71. d. 16 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1878. Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. viii 385 (1880).
NOWELL, John. b. Todmorden, Lancs. 1802; a hand loom weaver; a twister at Fielden Brothers’ works, Waterside, Todmorden to death; botanized over greater part of England, Wales and Ireland, and studied crypto-gamic botany; discovered a cavern moss, schistostega pennata 1840; assisted Thomas Baines in his Flora of Yorkshire; for Baines and Baker’s Yorkshire Flora 1854, he edited The mosses of of the county; the mosses Nowellia curvifolia, Zygodon Nowellii and Lastrea montana Nowelliana were called after him. d. Todmorden 1867. bur. Cross stone. Manchester quarterly i 205–18 (1882).
NOWELL, John. b. Farnley Wood, Yorkshire 1 March 1794; educ. Almondbury gram. sch.; gave lectures in Huddersfield on chemistry; engaged in the fancy trade; aided in founding Huddersfield college; an original member of Archæological soc.; made a copy of the first register book of Almondbury parish 1864; author of An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline 1844; Manual of field gardening or Belgian agriculture made easy 1845, 2 ed. 1846. d. Almondbury 4 March 1869. Hulbert’s Annals (1882) 63, 144, 256, 448–52.
NOWOSIELSKI, Felix. b. Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. d. London 22 April 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery.
NOYES, Thomas Herbert (eld. son of rev. Thomas Herbert Noyes, V. of Bath-Easton, Somerset Dec. 1797 until his death 8 Aug. 1812). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; F.G.S.; author of Some notices of the family of Newton 1857; An Idyll of the Weald, with other lays and legends 1868; Hymns of modern man 1872; translated Lyrics and bucolics, the eclogues of Virgil, a selection of the odes of Horace, &c. 1868; author with G. de Mirelles Soares of Mind or more than matter, a spirit drama, by Pro and Con 1873. d. Craig-en-ross, Millport, Scotland 19 Dec. 1881.
NUGEE, George (youngest son of Francis James Nugee of St. James’s, London, tailor, d. 1844). b. London 24 July 1819; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., senior classical scholar, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; student at Inner Temple; curate to rev. W. J. E. Bennett at St. Paul’s, Wilton place, London 1845; warden of the House of mercy at Park house, Highgate 1846, a most successful penitentiary; principal of St. Paul’s mission college Dean st. Soho, London; sec. of London diocesan home mission; V. of Wymering and R. of Widley, Hants Jany. 1859–72; founded the order of St. Augustine at Wymering 1872; founded a May meeting at Wymering with a May Queen, and in London with a Rose Queen; founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin at Wymering, a nursing society partly paid by the English government; worked in conjunction with Father Ignatius; founded St. Austin’s priory New Kent road, London 1872, provost 1872 to death; author of The necessity for Christian education to elevate the native character in India 1846; Instruction on confirmation 1848; Emmaus or things in the way 1848; The holy women of the gospel, lectures 1856; A penitential. By G. N. 1857; The words from the cross as applied to our own deathbeds 1856; St. Austin’s mission handbook of prayer and praise 1875; England and the Jews, their destiny and her duty 1881. d. at residence of his brother-in-law, rev. A. J. Street, Talaton rectory, Devon 5 Oct. 1892. The very rev. provost Nugee, M.A., a retrospect reprinted from the South London gazette (1879); Biograph iv 344–50 (1880); Church portrait journal iii 111 (1879) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 626 (1885) portrait.