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NOYES, FREDERICK ROBERT HALSEY HERBERT, brother of Kennaway William Herbert Noyes (qv); b. 29 Nov 1839; adm. 19 Jun 1851; Univ. Coll. Durham; Fell’s Prize; Mathematical Prize and BA 1861; MA 1867; BD and DD 1875; ordained deacon 1862, priest 1863 (both Chichester); Curate, Waldron, Sussex 1862-6, Tarporley, Cheshire 1866-71; Vice-Principal, Chichester Theol. Coll. 1871-5; Curate, St. Andrew’s, Chichester, Sussex 1872-5; Provist of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland 1875-86; Dean of Argyll and the Isles 1883-6; Rector of Long Crichel, Dorset 1886-1906; Rector of Donnington, Yorks., from 1906; m. 7 May 1878 Emily Mary, eldest dau. of Rev. Thomas Percival Rogers, Vicar of Batheaston, Somerset; d. 1 Jan 1917.

NOYES, CHARLES, son of Samuel Frederick Noyes, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, solicitor, and Charlotte, dau. of John Hodgson QC, Lincoln’s Inn; b. 7 Feb 1854; at Harrow Sch. Sep 1866 – Dec 1868; adm. 22 Jan 1869 (James'); left Christmas 1871; d. 3 Apr 1877.

Nowell, Wilfrid James, only son of Arthur Trevethin Nowell, of Kensington, by Lucy Helen, daughter of James Daniel, of Biggleswade, Beds; b. Oct. 28, 1896; adm. April 28, 1910 (G); left Dec. 1912; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles Sept. 10, 1914; 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. (Spec. Res.) July 1, 1915; went out to Egypt Nov. 1915, was transferred to the western front March 1916; killed in action at Arras, France, April 9, 1917; unm.

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.

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.

Major music publishing house founded by Vincent Novello (1781-1861) and continued by his son (Joseph) Alfred Novello (1810-96). In 1846, Henry Littleton, formerly a partner, took over after AN's retirement; in 1867 he purchased Ewer & Co., the business thereafter known as Novello, Ewer & Co.

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.

NOURSE, JOHN, son of John Nourse, Weston-sub-Penyard, Herefs., and Elizabeth, dau. of William Gregory, How Caple, Herefs.; b.; adm. (aged 15) Sep 1737; left 1739; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1739; Fellow, All Souls Coll. 1744 [check]; BCL 1751; adm. Middle Temple 9 May 1743; d. unm. 1757.

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].