NORTON, ---; b.; at school c. 1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
NORTHRYGE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
NORTHEY, THOMAS; b.; adm. 22 Sep 1775. [Perhaps Thomas Northey, third son of Thomas Northey, Berwick-on-Tweed, adm. Middle Temple 18 May 1778 – was he a son of Thomas Northey, army officer, and Margaret, dau. of J. L. Hancorne, Gower, Glamorgan (they m. 1766) ?].
Northcott, Richard Henry, son of Walter Wynne Northcott of Edinburgh and Maude Elsie, d. of Maj.-Gen. Arthur Hill; b. 26 Apr. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (R); left Dec. 1927; 2nd Lieut. The Welsh Regt Jan. 1932, Lieut. Jan. 1935, Capt. Jan. 1940, temp. Maj.; m. 7 Apr. 1941 Elizabeth Hope, d. of George Douglas Budge and sister-in-law of George Edric Nee (qv); killed in action (Normandy) July 1944.
Richard Henry Northcott was born at Paddington, London on the 26th of April 1910 the only son of Walter Wynne Northcott and Maude Elsie (nee Hill) Northcott of 27, Craven Road, Paddington, later of Rochester House School, Edinburgh. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1923 to December 1927. He was a member of the 1st Rowing VIII in 1927 where he rowed at stroke. The Elizabethan wrote the following on his 1927 season: - “Rather short in the swing, but otherwise an excellent stroke, showing good judgement and an ability to rally his crew.” He served as a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1927.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in the Territorial Army on the 29th of March 1930 before being commissioned with the same rank in the 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment in the regular army on 30th of January 1932. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 30th of January 1935 and to Captain in January 1940. He was married at Kensington on the 7th of April 1941 to Elizabeth Hope (nee Budge).
He was promoted to temporary Major on the 5th of February 1943 and joined the 1/5th Battalion of his Regiment as a company commander on the 29th of July 1943.
On the 16th of June 1944, an advance party from the Battalion left their base at Herne Bay and travelled by road to Canning Town. They were joined there by the main party and entrained for their marshalling area at Lingfield in Surrey. The main group began embarking at Newhaven at 2pm on the 24th of June and landed at the Jig Beach section of Gold Beach in Normandy at 1.30pm on the 26th of June 1944.
By the morning of the 21st of July 1944, the 1/5th Battalion, Welch Regiment was at the town of Baron. At 3pm that afternoon, enemy smoke and high explosive shells began landing in the Battalion positions with A Company, on the right of the line, soon reporting that they were under attack by four tanks accompanied by infantry. At 4pm a Platoon from B Company, which was positioned on the left of the Battalion and was on a line which ran along the Croie de Filandriers to Le Bon Repos road, was overrun by four enemy tanks supported by infantry. At 7pm two Squadrons of British tanks moved along the Battalion’s left flank in an attempt to bring the Germans under enfilade fire but this failed. At 8pm, A Company reported that the enemy tanks were now within 50 yards of their positions and by 9.30pm they were reported to be within 10 yards, after which there was no further communication from them. At 9.30pm C Company reported that the enemy force attacking them consisted of four Mk IV tanks with infantry and that they had knocked out two of the tanks, one with a PIAT and one with a six pounder anti tank gun. The Company was engaged in heavy fighting throughout the night, during which they were cut off and, with the enemy force within 50 yards of their position, they were ordered to withdraw at 6.30am the following morning.
C Company had suffered casualties of 25 men during the fighting while A Company was assumed to have been wiped out. Richard Northcott was among the dead.
He is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial Panel 15, Column 3.
Northcott, John Anthony Fraser, son of Rev. Reginald James Northcott, Vicar of Charlton Kings, Gloucs, and Susan Frances Northcott; b. 8 Feb. 1924; adm. Jan. 1938 (B); left July 1938 and went to Cheltenham Coll.; 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards June 1943; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1948, MA 1953; ord. deacon 1950, priest 1951 (London); Curate St Martin’s-in-the-Fields 1950; Chaplain to the Forces Apr. 1952, regimental chaplain Korea and Hong Kong 1952-3, Germany 1953-7, UK 1957; d. 5 Aug. 1964.
NORTHCOTE, SIR ERNEST AUGUSTUS, third son of Stafford Henry Northcote, Belgrave Road, Westminster, lace merchant, and Isabella --- (IGI); b. 15 Feb 1850; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (James'); QS 1865; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1869 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 10 Oct 1869; LLB 1873; adm. Middle Temple 9 Nov 1871, called to bar 30 Apr 1875; Oxford circuit; Stipendiary Magistrate, British Guiana 1882-6; Sheriff of Essequibo 1884, and acting Puisne Judge 1884-5; Second Puisne Judge, Jamaica 1886-1903; Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago 1903-8, retd.; knighted 9 Nov 1905; a Governor of the School from 21 Nov 1912; m. 11 Jul 1895 Helena Jane, eldest dau. of Izett William Anderson MD, Kingston, Jamaica; d. 13 May 1915.
NORTHCOTE, ARTHUR EDWARD, brother of Sir Ernest Augustus Northcote (qv); b. 11 Apr 1853; adm. 27 Jun 1867 (James'); QS 1868; left Christmas 1871; an architect; pupil and assistant to Edward Cookworthy Robins FRIBA; ARIBA 20 Mar 1882; d. 9 Apr 1924.
NORTH, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1732/3. [Whitmore : “d. 1800 see new slip”] [perhaps therefore Rev. William North, clerk, Dallington, Sussex, will proved PCC 11 Sep 1800] [Presumably Whitmore thought that this William North was the William North who was adm. pens. Trinity Coll. Cambridge 30 Jun 1733, matr. Mich. 1734, scholar 1734, BA 1736/7, MA 1740, Fellow 1739, ordained deacon (Lincoln) 5 Jan 1737]
North, Paul Arundel, son of Stan1ey Kennecfy North, artist and picture restorer, and Vera May Rawnsley, portrait painter and poetess, d. of Col. Claude Rawnsley CMG CBE DSO RASC; b. 16 Jan. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left Apr. 1929; sales man. R. Kearsley & Co., paint manufac turers, 1930-40; RASC 1940-6 (Capt.), UK and W. Africa; International Paint Co. 1946-69, gen. man. decorative paints divn; man. R. A. Axtell & Partners, quantity surveyors, London, Paris and Brussels 1970-7; m. 30 Mar. 1941 Margaret, d. of Robert Wilfred Holmes, chemist; d. 17 Mar. 2001.