two sons—Thomas Welby, who succeeded his grandfather in the paternal estates, and John, who joined the civil service in Ceylon.
His works are: 1. ‘Tρυφιοδώρου Ἰλίου Ἄλωσις. De plurimis mendis purgata, et notis illustrata a T. Northmore’ (Greek), London, 1791, 8vo; reissued with a Latin version in 1804. 2. ‘Plutarch's Treatise upon the Distinction between a Friend and Flatterer, with Remarks,’ London, 1793, 8vo. 3. ‘Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar. By Phileleutherus Devoniensis,’ London, 1795, 8vo. In this work a Utopian form of government is described. 4. ‘A Triplet of Inventions, consisting of a Description of a Nocturnal or Diurnal Telegraph, a Proposal for an Universal Character, and a Scheme for facilitating the Progress of Science; exemplified in the Osteological part of Anatomy,’ Exeter, 1796, 8vo (cf. Groves, Pasilogia, p. 75). 5. ‘A Quadruplet of Invention,’ Exeter, 1796, 8vo; an augmented edition of the ‘Triplet.’ 6. An edition of Gray's ‘Tour through England and Wales’ [1799], 12mo. 7. ‘Of Education founded upon Principles. Part the First. Time: previous to the Age of puberty,’ London, 1800, 12mo. 8. ‘Washington; or Liberty restored: a Poem in ten Books,’ London, 1809, 8vo; Baltimore, 1809, 12mo; noticed in ‘Quarterly Review,’ ii. 365–75. In ‘Nicholson's Journal’ he wrote on ‘Effects on Gases by change in their Habitudes, or Elective Attractions, when mechanically compressed,’ 1805 (xii. 368), and on ‘Condensed Gases,’ 1806 (xiii. 233).
[Brüggemann's Engl. Editions of Greek and Latin Authors, pp. 322, 441; Biogr. Dict. of Living Authors, 1816, p. 254; Cooper's Memorials of Cambridge, ii. 380; Davidson's Bibl. Devoniensis, pp. 29, 206, Suppl. p. 7; Illustrated London News, 14 June, 1851, p. 545; Lit. Memoirs of Living Authors, p. 86; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 1704; Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 7 June 1851, p. 5.]
NORTHUMBERLAND, Dukes of. [See Dudley, John, 1502?–1553; Fitzroy, George, 1665–1716.]
NORTHUMBERLAND, titular Duke of. [See Dudley, Sir Robert, 1573–1649.]
NORTHUMBERLAND, Dukes and Earls of. [See Percy.]
NORTHUMBERLAND, Earls of. [See Copsi, d. 1067; Gospatric, fl. 1067; Comin, Robert de, d. 1069; Waltheof, d. 1075; Walchere, d. 1080, bishop of Durham; Morcar, fl. 1066; Mowbray, Robert de, d. 1125?; Pudsey, Hugh de, 1125–1195, bishop of Durham; Neville, John, d. 1471.]
NORTHUMBRIA, KINGS OF. [See Osbald, Osbrith, Osred, Osric, Oswald, Oswulf, and Oswy.]
NORTHWELL or NORWELL, WILLIAM de (d. 1363), baron of the exchequer, probably took his name from Norwell, Nottinghamshire, of which he was doubtless a native. Another William de Northwell was appointed rector of St. Clement's, Eastcheap, in 1309. The future baron was clerk of the king's kitchen in 1313. In 1327 he apparently adhered to Edward II, but received a pardon from the regency in the same year. In March 1329 he was presented to the ‘church of Candlewyke-street, London’ (Tanner, p. 155), and on 14 April he accompanied the king to France; on 27 July he was presented to the church of Wistow, Lincolnshire, and soon after to a moiety of that of Eckington, Derbyshire. On 14 Aug. 1331 he received the living of Bainton, Yorkshire, but the presentation was revoked on 28 Sept.; on 31 July he was granted for life the custody of the hospital of St. Nicholas, Carlisle. On 14 Dec. 1332 he received the prebend of Freeford, Staffordshire (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1330–4, p. 377), and in 1332 that of Norwell Overhall in the diocese of Southwell by royal grant, but the Archbishop of York disputed the right of presentation; Northwell was finally installed on 13 Sept. 1333 (ib. p. 478; Le Neve, iii. 437). On 12 Sept. 1335 Northwell was appointed keeper of the king's wardrobe, and Tanner says he received a prebend in Wolverhampton Church on 21 June 1338. In 1340 he resigned the wardrobe, and on 21 June was made a baron of the exchequer, but soon resumed office at the wardrobe (cf. Palgrave, Ancient Kalendars, iii. passim).
In 1346 Northwell accompanied the king on his Creçy campaign, and kept the accounts of the expedition (Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles, Camden Soc., p. 85). He remained at Calais until the following year, assisting in the administration of the town. On 8 Dec. 1348 he was presented by the Black Prince, as Earl of Chester, to the living of Stockport; but this did not prevent his continuance at the wardrobe. He died in 1363. Northwell was succeeded in the pre-
