Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NICHOLL, JOHN (1797 - 1853) The only son of Sir John Nicholl, was born on 21 August 1797. He was educated at Westminster and obtained a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1816. He took a first class in Classics and (like his father) proceeded to the D.C.L. degree in 1825, and was elected an Advocate of Doctors' Commons in 1826. He was also called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1824. He was elected member of the
NICHOLLS, JOHN (1555 - 1584?), controversial theologian His only connection with Wales is that he was a son of a John Nicholls and was born at Cowbridge. He entered White Hall (afterwards Jesus College), Oxford, and later transferred to Brasenose, but left without a degree. After leaving the University he returned home and acted as a tutor before obtaining a curacy at Withycombe in Somerset. The rest of his short life was spent partly on the continent
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1844 - 1885), Independent minister Park cemetery. Although he only spent eighteen years in the ministry, the freshness of his genius made him one of the most popular preachers in his denomination. ' One rarely heard a preacher with a greater gift for sustaining the interest of his congregation,' says Dr. John Thomas. The prominent part he played in the ' battle of the constitutions ' (see under M. D. Jones) displeased several people
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM JOHN (1866 - 1943), minister (Congl.)
NOAKES, GEORGE (1924 - 2008), Archbishop of Wales George Noakes was born on September 13 1924 in Penygaer, Bwlchyllan, Cardiganshire, one of the three children of a Welsh-speaking mother, Elizabeth Mary née Lewis and father, David John Noakes, colliery worker and later farmer, from English-speaking south Pembrokeshire. This factor gave him an unforced and natural bilingualism which made him a fluent and attractive preacher in both languages. As
NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist Born 24 August 1779, second son of John Norris, a wealthy London merchant, by his wife Catherine (Lynch), the divorced wife of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glamorganshire. Though not a Welshman by birth, Norris lived and worked in Wales for nearly sixty years. He settled in 1800 at Milford, but removed in 1810 to Tenby, where he died 16 October 1858. The great majority of his pictures are
NORTH, FREDERICK JOHN (1889 - 1968), geologist, educator, historian of science and museum curator
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect with Henry Harold Hughes, and The Old Churches of Snowdonia (1924, with H.H. Hughes). He died 9 February 1941.
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history John Thomas of Llanfihangel-Aber-bythych in 1769 under the title Duwioldeb Rhydychain - see the account of the matter in D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, i, 64-6.
O'NEIL, BRYAN HUGH ST. JOHN (1905 - 1954), archaeologist
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet Born 7 November 1838 at White Hall, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, and christened 18 November, the fourth child of John and Sarah Oliver. He received his early education at the village school (1843-50) and in a Carmarthen school (1850-3), and then determined to prepare himself for the Independent ministry. After a successful career from 1853 to 1859 in the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, where he
OLIVER(S), THOMAS (1725 - 1799), Wesleyan preacher Born at Tregynon, Montgomeryshire, in 1725 (christened 8 September). He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and became a travelling craftsman. He was converted by Whitefield, at Bristol, but joined the Wesleyans. In 1753, John Wesley appointed him to itinerate, and he did so for twenty-two years. In 1775 Wesley appointed Oliver superintendent of his printing in London, but had to remove him from

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