NELSON, ---; b.; in school list 1797.
NELMES, THOMAS, son of Thomas Nelmes, Westminster, druggist; b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1725; left 1730; apprenticed to Edward Kingston, Bath, Somerset, apothecary 2 Mar 1730/1. [Presumably Thomas Nelmes, son of Thomas Nelmes and Ellen (Risdale ?), bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Sep 1714 (IGI)].
Neill, Rolf Mayne, only son of Harold Neill, of Kensington, by Louisa Buchanan, daughter of John P. S. Holton, of Southampton; b. Feb. 7, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left April 1916; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Scots Fusiliers Feb. 24, 1915, attached M.G.C. Dec. 23, 1915; Lieut. March 17, 1916; 2nd Lieut. R.F.C. (Spec. Res) June 3, 1916; Flying Officer Aug. 23, 1916; joined a Sopwith Squadron on the western front Sept. 1916; invalided home Nov. 1916; rejoined his squadron in March 1917; killed in action near Messines June 3, 1917.
NEILL, JOHN JAMES VANSITTART, youngest son of Brig. -Gen. James George Smith Neill CB, EICS Madras, and Isabella (Lady Neill), dau. of William Warde (qv); b. 19 Jul 1851; adm. 28 Sep 1861 (G); left Dec 1867; m. Alice Bristowe; killed accidentally when riding near Corowa, New South Wales, Australia 27 Jul 1880.
NEILE, RICHARD, son of Paul Neile, King Street, Westminster, tallow chandler, and Sybil Hasinge; bapt. 11 Mar 1561/2; at school under Grant (Wood, Athenae Oxon. , ii, 341); according to Leighton’s Epitome, 1646, 66, “the Schoolmaster was never off his Breech, by which he became so sorry a Dunce, that untill that hour he could never make a right Latin Theame”; St. John’s Coll. Camb. , adm. 22 Apr 1580, Burghley scholar (on nomination of Dean Goodman), matr. 1580; BA 1583/4; MA 1587; BD 1595; DD 1600 (incorp. Oxford 15 Jul 1600); ordained deacon and priest (Peterborough) 6 Jul 1589; Chaplain to Lord Burghley; held various ecclesiastical preferments; Treasurer of Chichester 5 Jul 1598 – Dec 1610, Prebendary 30 Apr 1604 – Jan 1613/4, also Canon Residentiary 20 Jan 1609/10- Jan 1613/4; Master of the Savoy 24 Jan 1602/3-5; Dean of Westminster 5 Nov 1605 – Dec 1610; took a great interest in the School, and while Dean is said to have sent two or three scholars yearly to the Universities at his own cost; Rector of Southfleet, Kent 1608-10; consecrated Bishop of Rochester 9 Oct 1608; translated to Lichfield and Coventry 6 Dec 1610, and to Lincoln 18 Feb 1613/4; made a violent attack on the House of Commons 24 May 1614, for which he finally apologised with tears; translated to Durham 9 Oct 1617; Privy Councillor 29 Apr 1627; translated to Winchester 7 Feb 1627/8; accused of Arminianism by the Commons 13 Jun 1629; sat regularly in Court of High Commission and in the Star Chamber; Archbishop of York from 19 Mar 1631/2; an uncompromising churchman and strict disciplinarian; of little learning, but of much address and capacity for business; m. ; d. 31 Oct 1640. DNB.
In the account which he drew up of what had been done by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster during the time that he was Dean he records “Myself have yearly sent out of this School (besides those six that have been elected), whom I have gotten placed in other colleges besides Trinity College and Christ Church, some years two, some years three, and with some charge to me ; which I have carefully done in a thankful remembrance of God’s goodness showed to me in my being preferred from this School to St.John’s College, Cambridge, by the honourable bounty of my foundress and patroness, the Lady Mildred Burghley”.
NEGUS, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1724; left 1725.
Negus, Alfred Ainger, son of Rev. Albert Edward Negus, Rector of Gt Leighs, Essex, and Mary Beatrice, d. of Rev. Hesketh Hanson, Vicar of Marsworth, Bucks; b. 23 Nov. 1905; adm. Sept. 1920 (G); left July 1923; Exeter Coll. Oxf., matric. 1923 (organ schol.), BA 1926, MA 1930; RCM 1929, ARCO; music master Mill Hill Junior Sch. 1931-3; asst dir. of music Harrow Sch. 1933- 8; asst master Stowe Sch. 1940-1 and 1945-74; RAFVR 1941-5 (Flt Lieut. A & SD); m. 14 Jan. 1939 Lily Catherine Lucy, d. of Richard Whittington MD, of Hove, Sussex; d. 6 June 1986.
Negus, Albert James Samuel, brother of Alfred Ainger Negus (qv); b. 16 Apr. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (G); left Dec. 1927; Queen's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1939; FO RAFRO Sept. 1930, transf. A & SD June 1940 (Sqdn Ldr); m. 4 Nov. 1932 Nancy, d. of Rev. Wilfred Henry Carroll, Vicar of Roxwell, Essex; d. June 1986.