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Nares, Revd Robert (1735–1829), philologist: 982
Nash, Richard (1674–1761), ‘Beau Nash’, master of ceremonies and social celebrity; master of ceremonies at Bath (1705); both treasured and reviled, as a gambler, sinner and womanizer; crown eventually tarnished after the admission that he had conned visitors in games of cards and dice; memorialized in Goldsmith’s Life of RichardNash (1762): 4
Naude, Gabriel (1600–53), bibliographer (‘Naudæus’): 475
Neander, Michael (1525–95), German philologist: 407
Nelson, Robert (1656–1715), philanthropist and religious writer; Nonjuror; fellow of the Royal Society (1695); formed the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) (1698); influence on John Wesley; author of A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England (1704): 509, 936
Neny (or‘Neni’), Count Patrice (1716–84), Netherlands statesman: 536
Newbery, John (i7i3-67), bookseller in Reading and London: 177, 185
Newcastle, Henry Fiennes-Clinton, 2nd Duke of (1720–94), politician; Lord Lieutenant of Cambridge (1742– 57); lord of the bedchamber (1743); joint comptroller of the customs of London (1749); auditor of the Exchequer (1751); knight of the Garter (1752); Privy Councillor (1768); preferred the pleasures of the country and sport to politics: 798–9
Newcastle, Sir Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of (1693–1768), prime minister (1754-6); Whig; Lord Chamberlain (1717); friend of George I; knight of the Garter (1718); Secretary of State for the South (1724); effectively Walpole’s foreign minister (1730–39); defence minister (1739–48); foreign minister for Pelham (1748–54); minister offinancesatthe Treasury for Pitt the elder (1757–62); often regarded as the classic example of incompetence elevated to power by virtue of wealth alone: 87
Newhall, Sir Walter Pringle, Lord (i664?–i736), judge; advocate (1687); made judge and created Lord Newhall (1718); leading Scottish barrister: 604
Newhaven, William Mayne, 1st Baron (1722–94), politician: 743
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727), natural philosopher and mathematician; theologian and student of alchemy; Lucasian professor at Cambridge University (166^); author of Philosophiaenaturalisprincipia mathematica (1687); Warden of the Mint (1696); president of the Royal Society (1703): 163, 239, 326 and n. a, 679, 775 n. a, 839, 883
Newton, Dr Thomas (1704–82), bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul’s: 921 and n. a
Nicol, George (c.1741–1829), bookseller and publisher; owned a share in the Gazetteer; purchased the majority of the Caxtonian volumes for George III; helped create the ‘Bodoni Hum’ typeface used to print Boydell’s Shakespeare; catalogued and organized the sale of the books of the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1812): 901, 966 and n. b
Nicholls, Dr Frank (1699–1778), anatomist and physician; fellow of the Royal Society (1728); author of Compendium anatomicum (1732); fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1732); Lumleian lecturer (1746); first to lecture on the minute anatomy of the tissues; style and method of teaching greatly influenced William Hunter: 451, 611
Nichols, John (1745–1826), printer and writer; apprenticed under William Bowyer; as Bowyer’s executor, took over his printing house on his death (1777); printers to the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society for many years; owned a share in the Gentleman’s Magazine (from 1778); reputation as an editor, biographer and antiquary; edited Volume 17 of the trade edition of Swift’s Works (1775); avid collector of literary manuscripts; member of the Essex Head Club; printed S.J.’s Lives of the English Poets; gave J.B. material for his Life; author of The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester: 53 n. d, 58, 60 n. b, 71 n. a, 79 and n. b, 80 nn. a and b, 782 and n. a, 795, 824, 854, 897 n. a, 903, 941, 963, 969, 979, 993 andn. a
Nicolaida, or Nicolaides (fl. 1775–82), a learned Greek: