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NEWTON, LILY (1893 - 1981), scientist an MSc (1918) and a PhD which she gained in 1922. After a short period as an assistant lecturer at Bristol (1919-1920), she moved to Birkbeck College, University of London as a lecturer (1920-1923) with Professor Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879-1967). It was there that she met the pioneering cytologist William Charles Frank Newton (1894-1927). They married in 1925 and Lily moved to Norwich where Frank
NICHOLAS, JAMES (1877 - 1963), Baptist minister from Blaendyffryn. William Thomas, the Independent minister at Llanboidy, influenced him greatly, but he became a member at Ramoth with his mother. He was baptized, aged 16, by the minister, D.S. Davies (Dafis Login) and he delivered his first sermon in April 1898. Following nine months at the Old College School at Carmarthen, he became a student at the Presbyterian College Carmarthen 1899-1901. He
NICHOLAS, WILLIAM RHYS (1914 - 1996), minister and hymnwriter W. Rhys Nicholas was born on 23 June 1914 at Pen-parc, Tegryn, Pembrokeshire, the fifth of the nine children of William Nicholas (died 1933) and his wife Sarah. The preacher-poet T. E. Nicholas was a cousin of his father. He was educated at the local school and at the age of 14 was sent to the celebrated Grammar School founded by John Phillips at Newcastle Emlyn. While there he contracted
NICHOLL, Sir JOHN (1759 - 1838), judge Doctors' Commons, of which he was admitted an Advocate on 3 November 1785. His practice became extensive and he succeeded Sir William Scott (lord Stowell) as king's Advocate on 6 November 1798, and was knighted according to custom. He was elected to Parliament in 1802 and remained a member for different constituencies until the Reform Act dissolution in December 1832, when he retired. His parliamentary
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1844 - 1885), Independent minister Born at Holyhead in April 1844. He was educated by his minister, William Griffith (1801 - 1881). In due course, he went to the Normal College, Bangor, to be trained as a school teacher. In 1862, at the end of his course, he became a teacher at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, and began to preach in Horeb chapel. He then moved to Llanengan school in the Llŷn peninsula, received a call to take charge of the
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM JOHN (1866 - 1943), minister (Congl.) Born 23 December 1866, at 14 Vrondeg Street, Bangor, son of William Nicholson. He was admitted to the Memorial College at Brecon in 1886 and he spent the first year at the University College, Cardiff. In May 1889 he was ordained minister of St. Paul's Church Swansea. In 1892 he became minister of Salem church, Porthmadog, and remained there until 1940, when ill health and defective eyesight
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet itinerant schoolmaster at that time. Towards the middle of the century (or, perhaps, before that) he came to the notice of the Williams family of Aberpergwm, and that mansion was his home thenceforward until he died. It was maintained during the last century that he was kept there as ' family bard ' - the last in Wales, so it was said; but William Davies of Cringell (1756 - 1823) said in 1795-6 that he
NOAKES, GEORGE (1924 - 2008), Archbishop of Wales study' was a great project which hatched three significant reports (1990, 1991 and 1993), though with few results. Archbishop Noakes was prominent in the 400th anniversary of Bishop William Morgan's translation of the Bible into Welsh (1988), the publication of the new Welsh Bible (1988) and the 1400th anniversary of the death of St David in 1989. His deep enthusiasm for ecumenism was reflected in him
NORTH, FREDERICK JOHN (1889 - 1968), geologist, educator, historian of science and museum curator contains a wealth of historical material and he also wrote monographs on a number of the nineteenth-century pioneers of geology - W.D. Conybeare, Dean William Buckland, Charles Lyell and particularly H.T. de la Beche, founder of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, the Museum of Practical Geology and the Royal School of Mines. He contributed many items to DWB. He maintained an active interest in the
NOTT, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1845), soldier
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history century Nottage Court was mortgaged by the Loughers to a William Jones, an apothecary of Cardiff, but in 1777 this William Jones's grandson, Cradock Nowell (Knight, op. cit., 256) - either the father or the brother of Thomas Nowell - sold it back to the then owners of Tythegston, the Knight family. Newton church has a memorial tablet to the widow of some Cradock Nowell. It may be remembered that R. D
OLLIVANT, ALFRED (1798 - 1882), bishop Born at Manchester 16 August 1798, son of William Ollivant of Manchester and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at S. Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had an outstanding academic career. Elected Fellow of his college, he took his M.A. in 1824, and B.D. and D.D. in 1836. In 1827 he was elected vice-principal of S. David's College, Lampeter, and remained there till

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