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.

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].

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·

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.

NORTHRYGE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

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.

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.

NORRIS, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1620, matr. 1620; migr. to Clare Coll. ; BA 1623/4; MA 1627. [Perhaps Rector of Horsenden, Bucks. , 1640, sequestrated 1650; Rector of East Hendred, Berks. , from 22 Feb 1660/1; d. 1685].