by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 10, 2019
Sir Harry Burrard Neale 1765-1840. He was born in Lymington on 16 September 1765, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Burrard (1712-80), the governor of Yarmouth Castle on the Isle of Wight, and his second wife, Mary Pearce, of Lymington. He was the first...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2019
Sir Henry Nicholls 1758-1830. He was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, the son of the agent to the politician Lord de Clifford of Kingsweston. Nicholls was described as displaying an honest bluntness that earned the respect of Lord de Clifford and saw him despatched at a...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
See Hon. William Carnegie, 7th Earl Northesk
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 16, 2018
Christopher John Williams Nesham 1771-1853. He was the son of Captain Christopher Nesham of the 63rd regiment, and of his wife Mary Williams, who in turn was the sister of William Peere Williams-Freeman who rose to become admiral of the fleet. He was also related to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 9, 2018
Sir Edmund Nagle 1757-1830. Born in Bloomfield, County Cork, Ireland, he was the son of Edmund Nagle, and a second cousin maternally of Edmund Burke, the eminent politician. He was orphaned at the age of six by the death of his father and was subsequently brought up...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 2, 2017
Henry Newcome Died 1797. He was the eldest of five sons of Henry Newcome, the headmaster of Newcome s School at Hackney, an establishment which educated a large number of future members of parliament and other prominent individuals in the Whig interest. His mother,...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 22, 2017
William Nowell 1755- 1828. He was the second son of Cradock Nowell, of Nottage in Glamorgan. Nowell joined the navy in 1769 aboard the Portsmouth guardship San Antonio 60, commanded by his patron, Captain Clark Gayton, who helped him achieve various appointments over...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 11, 2017
Thomas Newnham Died c1795. Newnham was commissioned lieutenant on 6 December 1760, and from 1769-71 commanded the cutter Hunter 4 off the Isle of Wight, paying her off in July of the latter year. He was promoted commander on 24 March 1779, joining the sloop Star 10 in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 24, 2016
Robert Boyle Nicholas 1744-80. He was the son of William Nicholas of Froyle, Hampshire, and of his first wife, Harriet Boyle, the daughter of George, 1st Earl of Cork and Orrery. The family was descended from Sir Edward Nicholas, the secretary of state to both King...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 2, 2016
Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount. Duke of Bronte 1758-1805. He was born on 29 September 1758, the third surviving son of Edmund Nelson, rector of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, and of his wife, Catherine Suckling. He was the nephew of Captain Maurice Suckling, who became the...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 24, 2016
John Neale Pleydell Nott 1732-81. He was born on 3 July 1732, the oldest of three surviving sons of John Nott of Braydon Lodge, Cricklade, Wiltshire, and of his wife Elizabeth Neale. He was the half-brother of Captain Edward Herbert. Nott attended the Royal Naval...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2015
Sir Charles Edmund Nugent 1758-1844. He was born on 19 July 1758, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Edmund Nugent, who was a groom of the bedchamber to the King, and the grandson of the Irish politician and poet, Earl Nugent. Following his father’s death in 1771 his...
