NORTHRYGE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
NORTON, JOHN, son of Richard Norton; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) in 1660; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1662, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1662, scholar 1663; BA 1665/6; MA 1669 (incorp. Oxford 1669); unsuccessfully petitioned Charles II in 1668 for a letter to the Master and Fellows of Trinity Coll. to grant him the next Fellowship, Norton stating that “he was put aside last election of Fellows on account of His Majesty’s letter for another : if not elected this term will become incapable, as scholars of the seventh year have to take their MA degree and cannot then be Fellows” (CSP Dom 1667-8, 597, where the petition of Ralph Norton to Lord Arlington on behalf of his ward John Norton will also be found); ordained; Vicar of Rushden, Herts., from 1669; d. 1684.
Notcutt, Edward Victor, brother of John Walter Notcutt (qv); b. 7 Oct. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (G); left July 1933; a chartered accountant, ACA 1939, FCA 1961; RASC 1941-5 (Maj.); dir. West minster Chamber of Commerce; m. 23 Sept. 1939 Elizabeth Mary Kathleen, d. of Gerald Stuart McKenzie Sichel of Hampstead; d. 21 Oct. 1984.
Notcutt, John Walter, son of Walter Perry Notcutt of Hutton, Essex, and Clara Madeline, d. of George Harrison; b. 29 May 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (G); left Dec. 1929; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1935, in practice in London; m. IO Apr. 193 7 Elaine Margaret, d. of Montagu·e Stannard of Hampstead; d. 26 Mar. 1994.
Nott-Bower, George Mowbray, brother of Reginald Ernest Nott-Bower (q.v.); b. July 31, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 25, 1902 (G); left Dec. 1905; R.M.A. Woolwich 1908; killed by the accidental discharge of a revolver, with which he was practising, April 18, 1909.
Nott-Bower, Reginald Ernest, son of Sir Edmund Ernest Nott-Bower, K.C.B., of Richmond, Surrey, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, by Louisa Adelaide, daughter of Capt. James Charles Yorke, of Gwernant, Cardiganshire; b. April 18, 1887; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1901; left (with Triplett) July 1906; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Micahlemas 1906; B.A. 1910; adm. a solicitor Oct. 1916; practised at Reading Berks; served in Great War I and was wounded at Loos in Sept. 1915; Major 12th Batt. Rifle Brigade April 20, 1915; m. April 24, 1920, Mary Dorothy, daughter of Professor Herbert McLeod, LL.D., F.R.S., of Richmond, Surrey; d. Oct. 1947·
NOURSE, GEORGE, son of Thomas Nourse MD, Westminster, and Susannah Goodall, Belgrave, Leics.; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1648; KS 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 2 Jun 1652, Westminster Student (still 1660); BA 1655/6; MA 1658; m. [Probably George Nurse, son of Thomas Nurse, bapt. St. Mary, Leicester 12 Jan 1634].
NOURSE, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1650, matr. 27 Nov 1650, Westminster Student; BA 1654/5; MA 1657; ordained deacon and priest (Oxford) 31 Mar 1661.
NOVERRE, WILLIAM LYND, son of Arthur Noverre MRCS LSA, Great Stanmore, Middlesex, surgeon, and Emma Otway, eldest dau. of Charles Otway Mayne (qv); b. 18 Dec 1840; adm. 28 Sep 1854 (James'); left Whitsun 1856; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1857; 2nd Lieut., 1st European Regt., 18 May 1858; Lieut., 21 Feb 1859; Capt., 20 Nov 1869; Maj., 20 Nov 1877; Lieut. -Col., Bengal Staff Corps 20 Nov 1883; retd. 1 Jan 1885; served in Indian Mutiny; m. 17 Dec 1874 Agnes Govane, dau. of Robert Kerr, Liverpool; d. 20 Mar 1926.
NOWELL, LAURENCE, son of Alexander Nowell, Read Hall, Whalley, Lancs., and Grace, dau. of Rafe Catherall, Mitton, Lancs.; a kinsman of Alexander Nowell, Head Master; b. c. 1531 (aged 19 at 12 Apr 1550); adm.; KS; left 1549 (Chapter Muniments); Christ Church, Oxford, residing 1550-3, Student in 1552-3 (name in college buttery books to 24 Dec 1554); BA 1552; studying and travelling in France and Flanders 1553-4; tutor to “Mr. Harringeton’s sons” (perhaps sons of Sir James Harington, Exton, Rutland) in France and at Padua, Italy, before Dec 1558; probably the individual of this name who was MP Knaresborough Jan – May 1559; joined household of William Cecil c. 1562; a pioneer cartographer and one of the earliest scholars to take a serious interest in manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period; left England 25 Mar 1567; subsequent travels on the European continent took him to Paris, Venice, Padua, Vienna, Basel, Leipzig (by Aug 1569) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Oct 1569); not subsequently heard of; his chattels in England had been left by him in the possession of his close friend and fellow antiquary William Lambarde, who was asked to hand them over to Nowell’s family in a complaint filed in the Court of Requests in 1571; his Vocabularium Saxonicum, surviving in manuscript, was first published in 1952; William Camden describes him as “vir rara doctrina insignis, & qui Saxonicam maiorum nostrorum linguam … primus nostra aetate resuscitavit”; for his career and scholarly achievement see Carl T. Berkhout, “Laurence Nowell (1530 – ca. 1570)”, in Helen Damico (and others) (ed), Medieval scholarship, Biographical, Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, New York, 1998.