Nunns, James William Geraghty, brother of Richard Ernest Nunns (qv); b. 15 Apr. 1954; adm. Sept. 1967 (B); left July 1972; adm. solicitor Mar. 1981; Stevens Drake & Pope 1987-; m. 23 Apr. 1988 Margaret Louise, d. of John Gordon Cumming Hill-Murray, civil servant; d. 20 Dec. 2015.
Nunns, Ernest Frederick Bennett, son of Ernest Frederick Nunns, GPO surveyor, and Mabel Constance, d. of Edmund Bennett of Sunbury-on-Thames; b. 25 Oct. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (A), (B) Sept. 1925; left July 1926; a chartered accountant, ACA 1932; FCA 1939; Min. of Supply (non-ferrous metal control) in WW2; finance dir. Amalgamated Metal Corpn; m. 23 Apr. 1938 Brenda Evelyn Mary, d. of Charles Alfred Speed Williams, HM Customs Service, of High Salvington, Sussex; d. 23 Jan. 1982.
Nunns, Edmund Bennett, brother of Ernest Frederick Bennett Nunns (qv); b. 25 May 19 I 3; adm. Sept. 1926 (B), (R) Jan. 1927; left July 1930; RA 1941-6 (Maj.), GSO2 SHAEF 1944-6, despatches (NW Europe) Aug. 1945; I st Sec. (Information) Brit. Embassy Belgrade 1946-7; BBC Foreign Services (Eastern Europe) 1948; m. 17 Oct. 1944 Mary Florence, d. of Roger Hulton; d. 15 Oct. 1972.
NOYES, FREDERICK, twin brother of Charles Noyes (qv); b. 7 Feb 1854; at Harrow Sch. Sep 1866 – Dec 1868; adm. 22 Jan 1869 (James'); left Christmas 1871; d. 21 Mar 1877.
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.
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, 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].