NEWDIGATE, SIR ROGER, BART., brother of Sir Edward Newdigate, Bart. (qv); b. 30 May 1719; adm. Oct 1727; KS (Capt. ) 1732; succ. brother as 5th baronet 4 Apr 1734; left Jan 1736; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Apr 1736; MA 1738; DCL 13 Apr 1749; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1738-40; of Harefield Place, Middlesex, and Arbury, Warwickshire; MP Middlesex 5 Aug 1742-7, Oxford University 31 Jan 1751-80; again travelling in Europe 1774-6; a staunch Tory, described in 1767 by Horace Walpole as a “half-converted Jacobite”; interested in architecture and classical sculpture; a benefactor of University Coll. and of the Radcliffe Library; founded Newdigate Prize for English verse at Oxford Univ. 1806; m. 1st, 31 May 1743 Sophia, dau. of Edward Conyers MP, Copped Hall, Epping, Essex; m. 2nd, 3 Jun 1776 Hester Margaretta, dau. of Edward Mundy, Shipley, Derbs.; d. 20 Nov 1806. DNB.
NEWPORT, HENRY, 3RD EARL OF BRADFORD, son of Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, and Mary, third dau. of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, Bart., MP; b. 8 Aug 1683; at school under Knipe (The Works of Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, 1782, i, 103); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 May 1699, aged 15; Grand Tour (Italy) 1704-5, with William Pulteney (qv); MP Bishop’s Castle Mar 1705/6-8, Shropshire 1708-10, 1713-22; succ. father as 3rd Earl of Bradford 14 Jun 1723; Lord Lieut., Staffordshire 28 Oct 1715 – 27 Apr 1725, Shropshire from 20 May 1724; d. unm. 25 Dec 1734. Buried Duke of Ormonde’s vault, Westminster Abbey.
NEWSHAM, JAMES, only son of John Newsham MP, Chadshunt, Warwickshire, and his second wife Anne, dau. of James Craggs MP, Postmaster-General; b. 7 Oct 1715; adm. Apr 1723; in school list 1731; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Nov 1733; Grand Tour (Italy) 1735-7; member, Society of Dilettanti 1739; MP St. Germans 1741-7, St. Mawes 10 Dec 1754-61; d. unm. at St. Quentin, France Nov 1769.
NICHOLL, SIR CHARLES GOUNTER, brother of George Gounter (qv); bapt. 7 Oct 1704; adm. Jan 1716/7; left 1717; subsequently at Winchester Coll. [check]; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Apr 1722; assumed additional surname of Nicholl; MP Peterborough from 29 Jan 1728/9; KB 17 Jan 1731/2; of Racton, Sussex; m. Nov 1727 Elizabeth, dau. of William Blunden, Basingstoke, Hampshire; d. 24 Nov 1733.
NICHOLL, JOHN, only son of Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl Kt PC FRS MP, Judge of Admiralty Court, and Judy, youngest dau. of Peter Birt, Wenvoe Castle, Glamorgan; b. 21 Aug 1797; adm. 23 Sep 1806; in school list Oct 1814; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1815, Canoneer Student 1816-22; 1st cl. Classics 1818; BCL 1823; DCL 1825; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Nov 1819, called to bar 1 Jul 1824; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 1826; MP (Cons) Cardiff Boroughs 1832-52; a Lord of the Treasury Mar - Apr 1835; Vicar-General, Province of Canterbury 1838-44; Judge Advocate-General 1841-6; Privy Councillor 14 Sep 1841; member, Board of Trade 21 Jan 1846; DL JP Glamorgan; chairman, Glamorgan QS; m. 14 Dec 1821 Jane Harriot, second dau. of Thomas Mansel Talbot, Margam Abbey, Glamorgan; d. at Rome 27 Jan 1853.
NOEL, HON. JAMES, third son of Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough, and Lady Dorothea Manners, second dau. of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland PC; b. 18 Sep 1712; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1723/4; in school list Feb 1727/8; Grand Tour (Italy) 1731-2; MP Rutland from 1734; member, Society of Dilettanti 1736; d. unm. 17 Jun 1752.
NOEL, W.; b.; in school list May 1803; left 1803. [Perhaps Hon. William Middleton Noel, an elder brother of Hon. Leland Noel (qv), b. 2 May 1789; MP Rutland 1838-40; Col., Rutland Militia 1839; m. 20 May 1817 Anne, dau. of Joseph Yates, Clanna Falls, Gloucs.; d. 20 Jan 1859]
Noel-Baker, Hon. Francis Edward, son of Philip John, Baron Noel-Baker PC, Sec. of State for Commonwealth Relations, and Irene, d. of Francis Noel of Achmetaga, Evia, Greece; b. 7 Jan. 1920; adm. May 1934 (G); left Dec. 1938; King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1939; Intell. Corps 1941-5 (Capt.), despatches (Middle East) Apr. 1944; MP (Lab.) Brentford 1945-50, Swindon 1955-69; PPS Admiralty 1949-50; resigned from Labour Party 1969, joined SDP 1981-3, Cons. Party 1984-; hon. Pres. Union of Forest Owners of Greece 1968-; dir. North Euboean Enterprises Ltd 1973-, Fini Fisheries Cyprus 1976-; author of Greece, the Whole Story 1946, Land and People of Greece 1957, My Cyprus File 1985; Three Saints and Poseidon 1989; m. 1st 1947 Ann Lavinia, d. of Hilary A. St George Saunders of Heathfield, Sussex; 2nd 26 July 1957 Barbara Christina, d. of Inj Josef Sonander of Norrkoping, Sweden; d. 25 Sept. 2009.
NORRIS, SIR WILLIAM, BART., second son of Thomas Norris MP, Speke, Lancashire, and Catherine, dau. of Sir Henry Garroway, Kt, Lord Mayor of London; b.; adm.; KS in 1672; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1675, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1675, scholar 1676; BA 1678/9; MA 1682; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1681 – c. 1690, Tutor 1687; took part in struggle with James II against the admission of Roman Catholics to Cambridge Univ. 1687; MP Liverpool 1695 – Nov 1701; a Commissioner of Public Accounts 1697; created baronet 3 Dec 1698; sent out to India as King’s Commissioner to obtain trading privileges from the Mogul Emperor for the New General Society (otherwise English Company); landed at Masulipatam Sep 1699, but was not able to secure an audience with the Emperor Aurungzeb until 28 Apr 1701; after repeated interviews Norris left the Mogul camp in Nov 1701 without having achieved the objects of his mission; was forcibly detained for two months at Burhampuri, and not allowed to proceed until Feb 1701/2; sailed for England in ship Scipio 5 May 1702; lic. to m. 13 Dec 1689 Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas Pollexfen and of Isaac Meynell, both of London, and dau. of Robert Reade, Cheshunt, Herts.; d. 10 Oct 1702 on voyage back from India, and was buried at sea. DNB.
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.