NUNNELEY, Thomas (son of John Nunneley). b. Market Harborough, Leics. March 1809; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 12 July 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a surgeon at Leeds 1833 to death; surgeon to the Eye and ear hospital, Leeds, 20 years; lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery in Leeds school of medicine till 1866; surgeon to Leeds general infirmary 1864; gave evidence at the trials of the poisoners Wm. Palmer and Wm. Dove 1856; removed the whole tongue for cancer 1861; performed upwards of 1,000 operations for cataract; author of A treatise on erysipelas 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Anatomical tables 1838; On anæsthesia and anæsthetic substances generally, Worcester 1849; On the organs of vision, their anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 22 Park place, Leeds 1 June 1870. Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii 33 (1867) portrait; Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. vi 354 (1870); Lancet i 823 (1870).
NURSE, William Mountford. b. 1789; a builder; erected some of the terraces which surround Regent’s park, London; resided at 5 Langham place; built the Polytechnic, Regent st. 1837, in Dec. 1838 he leased it to the Polytechnic Institution, which had been incorporated by charter Aug. 1838, erected a new theatre adjoining the building 1847, the Institution took a lease of the new theatre 1848. d. York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 7 Dec. 1855.
NUSSEY, John. L.S.A. 1818; apothecary at 4 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London; apothecary to prince Albert to Dec. 1861; joint apothecary in ordinary to her majesty and the royal household to death; representative of the Apothecaries society of London in the general medical council 29 Oct. 1858, resigned 21 March 1862, treasurer of the council 25 Nov. 1858, resigned 23 June 1860. d. April 1862.
NUTT, David (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). b. 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. d. 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. bur. at Norwood cemet. G.M. xvi 126 (1864).
NUTTALL, John, known as Soldier. b. Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. d. Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. Illust. sporting news v 57 (1866) portrait; Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p. 4.
NUTTALL, Thomas (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). b. Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii 75, &c. (1889); Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1860) 26–9; Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States (1891) pp. v–vii.
NUTTALL, Thomas (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). b. London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. d. Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. A. Forbes’s Afghan wars (1892) 299.
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OAKELEY, Frederick (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). b. the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. d. 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. Reminiscences of Oxford, edited by L. M. Q. Couch (1892) 301–45; A.R. (1845) 95–6; C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley (1845).
OAKELEY, Soulden. b. 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. d. Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.