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1 If tilers of the Yorkist and 

 Lancastrian parties. Ralph's 

 grandson Richard, earl of Warwick, 

 was the greatest figure in the 

 family. Charles (1543-1601), Oth 

 and last earl of Westmorland, took 

 part in Northumberland's rel>rlli.m 

 of l.'di'.t, \ias attainted, and for- 

 feited his estates, including Raby 

 Castle (q.v.). Junior branches of 

 the family hold the titles of Aber- 

 giivrnny and of Braybrooke (?..). 

 Neville's Cross, BATTLE OF. 

 Fought between the English and 

 the Scots, Oct. 17, 1346. During 

 the absence of Edward III on cam- 

 paign in France, David, king of 

 Scots, invaded and ravaged the 

 north of England. The English 

 nobles, with the archbishop of 

 York, marched to repel the in- 

 vasion, and the two armies met at 

 Neville's Cross, a landmark on 

 an eminence near Durham. The 

 English archers opened the fight, 

 and in the event the Scots were 

 defeated with heavy loss, their 

 king being among the prisoners. 



Nevin OR NEFYN. Watering- 

 place of Carnarvonshire, Wales. It 

 is on Carnarvon Bay, 6 m. N.W. of 

 Pwllheli. In the 13th century it 

 was a fairly important place, as in 

 1284 Edward I held a festival here 

 to celebrate the conquest of Wales, 

 and at one time it was a corporate 

 town. Early in the 19th century 

 plans were drawn up for making 

 Nevin, and not Holyhead, the 

 port for Irish traffic. Pop. 1,800. 



Nevinson, CHRISTOPHER RICH- 

 ARD WYNNE (b. 1889). British 

 painter. Born in London, Aug. 13, 

 1889, a son of 

 H. W. Nevin- 

 son, he was 

 educated at 

 Uppingham, 

 studied art at 

 the S 1 a d e 

 School and in 

 Paris, and in 

 1910 began to 

 exhibit at the 

 New English 

 Art Club and 

 the London 

 Group, where his daring experi- 

 ments in cubism attracted atten- 

 tion. Joining the British army in 

 1914, he was in the Mons retreat. 

 Discharged in 1916, he was ap- 

 pointed an official artist with the 

 British armies in 1917. An exhi- 

 bition of his works at the Leicester 

 Galleries, London, 1918, showed 

 modifications of his early manner. 

 Nevinson, IFi:\i;v WOODD (b. 

 1857). British author and jour- 

 nalist. The son of G. H. Nevinson, 

 of Leicester, he was educated at 

 Shrewsbury School and Christ 

 Church, Oxford, and became a 

 journalist. In 1897 he acted as cor- 



C. R. W. Nevinson. 

 British painter 



Kxnell 



respondent for The Daily Chronicle Nevis. Inland of the British 



in Greece and Crete, and was West Indies, one of the Leeward 



afterwards in S. Africa. He was in group. It lien 2 in. 

 Africa, 1904-5, 



investigating 

 the horrors 

 of the slave 

 trade in Portu- 

 guese territory, 

 and in Russia 

 1906. For 



H. W. Nevinson, 

 British author 



KtliotlJt Frt, 



E' 

 itts, with which and Anguilla 

 (q.v.) it is administratively joined. 

 Its maximum length w 8 m., 

 breadth 4 m., and area 50 sq. m. 

 Roughly circular in outline, it is 

 composed of one volcanic rat., 

 u lii<-li rises to an alt. of 3,596 ft. 

 There are mineral springs near 

 Charlestown, the port and capital 

 on the 8.W. coast. Cotton, sugar, 

 cocoa, limes, vanilla, oranges, and 

 coconuts are produced. Discovered 

 by Columbus in 1498, Nevis was 

 colonised by the English in 1628. 



in 



The Daily 

 Chronicle he 

 was with the 

 Bulgarian army 

 in 1912, and 

 other countries 



he visited included Morocco, India, Pop. 13,0061 

 and Spain. On the outbreak of the Nevski Prospekt (Russ., Neva 

 Great War, Nevinson was in Berlin, street). Main thoroughfare of 

 and for a time in France, after which p e trograd, and the centre of the 

 he acted as war correspondent in commercial life of the city. Among 

 Gallipoli, Salonica, and Egypt. A the nume rous important buildings 

 champion of social reform, women s on its ^me of route are the Kazan 

 suffrage, and all advanced move- ca thedral, the Duma (town hall), 

 ments, his works include Lady- an( j tne Gostinny Dvor, a two- 

 smith, 1900 ; The Dawn in Russia, B t or eyed block of houses containing 

 1906 ; The New Spirit in India, 8Ome 400 8 h O ps. See Petrograd. 

 1908 ; Essays in Freedom, 1909 ; Nfiw ^ Cit of Indiana> 

 The Dardanelles Campaign, 1918. D s A ^ the co ^ at of J Floyd co . It 



Nevis. Loch or arm of the stands on the right bank of the 

 Atlantic Ocean in the S.W. of the Ohio river, 4 m. N.W. of Lou is - 

 co. of Inverness. It is a typical ville, and is served by the Chicago, 

 Scottish sea loch, 14m. in length, and Indianapolis, and Louisville and 

 from 1 to 4 m. wide. See Ben Nevis, other rlys. It has motor vehicle, 



leather, iron, en- 

 gine, boiler, and 

 furniture indus- 

 tries, and meat- 

 packing houses. 

 Organized as a 

 town in 1813, it 

 became a city in 

 1839. Pop. 23,000. 

 New Amster- 

 dam. Town of 

 British Guiana, S. 

 America. It stands 

 near the mouth of 

 the river Berbice, 

 at its junction 

 with the Canje, 65 

 m. by rly. S.E. of 

 Georgetown. Rice 

 is grown in the 

 surrounding dis- 

 tricts. It was 

 founded by the 

 Dutch, who con- 

 structed a system 

 of canals connect- 

 ing various parts 

 of the town. The 

 houses are mostly 

 built of wood. 

 Pop. 9,000. New 

 Amsterdam was 

 the name origin- 

 ally given by the 

 Dutch to the settle- 

 incut on Manhat- 

 C. R. W. Nevinson. A Group of Soldiers, one of the tan T,jio n H which 

 artist's characteristic impressions oi fighting men at 



the front during the Great War became New \ ork 



n rtrmittio* / i* mriin City in 1664. 



