NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



mil ; while nt tin- nei 



\MiiUe AM Saints was bom 



A lutT poet was 



.lolm ( 'I in-, tin- pra-ant poet. l>ni 



it ||rlp-ion. William Law was 



iffe, William l'al.-y 



it IVterl'oniii'ih. .lolm llei\ey, the 



author nl Meditation* ntnotii; the 



Toml'". .it !1 inhir.'stone, and 



.:i. author nf 



I'l'ton. Ko< kingham 



Castle was partly described by 



rlmrles Dickons as the Cheaney 



; i:!,..k House. 



IHI'ltugraphy. History of N., F. 

 \\ li.-ll.m, 1874 ; Bygone N., W. 

 Ainlri-w*. I sul ; Yii-toria History 

 .1! tin- Counties of Knu'liui.l, North 

 umptoii.-hire. \\ . K. 1 >. Ailkins and 

 It. M. Serjeantson, ed. U. A. 

 liiiiil'leiliiv. I'JH- : Archaeological 

 Survey of N., T. .1. Ccorge. 1904; 

 N. in tin- .'"ill century, \V. T. I'iUe, 

 Kural N. under the Common- 

 wealth, K. Lennard, 1916; High- 

 ways and Byways in N. and 

 Rutland, H. A. Evans, 1918 ; North- 

 amptonshire, W. Dry, 3rd ed. 1920. 



Northamptonshire Regiment. 



This was originally the 48th and 

 58th Foot, the former having been 

 embodied in 

 1741 and the 

 latter in 1755. 

 It first saw 

 active service 

 in Flanders, 

 1744, fighting 

 at T o u r n a i 

 and Fon- 

 tenoy. The 

 regiment was 



Northamptonshire 

 Regiment badge 



present at the capture of Louisburg, 

 1758, and Quebec, 1759. As evi- 

 dence of its share in the defence of 

 Gibraltar, 1779-83, the " Castle 

 and Key " is seen on its badge. It 

 fought under Abercromby in K^ypt 

 in 1801 and was specially men- 

 tioned by the duke of Wellington 

 for gallantry at Talavera. After 

 engaging in the New Zealand War, 

 I si."- 17, it took part in the Crimean 

 War, and fought in South Africa in 

 1879 and 1881, and also in 1899. 



In the Great War the 1st bat- 

 talion formed part of the original 

 expeditionary force and fought at 

 Mons and in all the other battles of 



1914. Attached to the 1st divi- 

 sion, it took part in the battle of 

 the SMIMIIIC in 1916 and made a 

 gallant stand at Lombartzyde 

 (q.v.) in 1917. The 4th battalion 

 (territorial) fought in Gall i poll in 



1915, and in Palestine, 1916, show- 

 ing great gallantry, commemorated 

 by Northampton Mound, at the 

 second battle of Gaza. Northamp- 

 tonshire yeomanry took part in the 

 British campaign in Italy, 1917-18. 

 The regimental depot is at North- 

 ampton. See The 7th (S) Battalion, 

 the Northamptonshire Regiment, 



j 1914-19, H. B. King, 1920. 



5771 



Northanger Abbey. .V .! l>v 



.1 UP \ i !! It was tint pub- 



poMhumou,!y in IMS 

 III' i "h it had IM-.-II eoinp 1 - 



Notable for it* i lever ren- 



of M..-IH! life nt Hath, and 



it* easy dialogue, the story WM 



'My designed as an ironical 



skit on the romantic school of 

 lii-lion then popular. 



North Bay. Town of Ontario, 

 Canada. The capital of the 



Nipissiiii; district, it i* IHX) in from 

 Montreal, and stands on the N.K. 

 side of Lake Nipissing. It is served 

 by the main line of the C.P. Kly. 

 and theC.N. Kly., and is a terminus 

 of the Temiskaming and Northern 

 Ontario Rly. Pop. 7,800. 



North Berwick. Royal and 

 num. burgh and watering-place of 

 Haddingtonshire, Scotland. It 



stands at the 



entrance to the 

 Firth of Forth, 

 23m. from Edin- 

 burgh, and is 

 served by the 

 X.B. Kly. With 

 fine sands, it is 

 famous for it- 

 polf courses. Be- 

 hind the town U 

 Berwick Law, a conical hill, 610 ft. 

 high, and near are the Bass Rock 

 and Tantallon and Dirleton Castles. 

 North Berwick, so named because 

 of its position with relation to 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, was made a 

 royal burgh about 1400, and was 

 then a flourishing port. Pop. 

 (1921)5,200. 



North British Rl. 

 arms 



North Berwick 

 arms 



NORTH CAPE 

 the Monkland and KirLiiitill- -I, 



line. ||.. 



amalgamation* followed, altogether 

 over SO small 

 lines being made 

 part of the North 

 It syittem, 

 whieh i, ..'A has a 

 tt.il mileage of 

 The main 

 line is from Aber- 

 leeti thro u li 

 Dundee to I 

 burgh, whence it 

 forks to Car'i-!e and iit-rwjck to 

 the main KnsHNh routes. 

 Fifehiie L* < oveied with a network 

 of lines, und the pleasure resorts 

 on the K. an' I i '.. U ' oanta are also 

 served. It owns the Tay Bridge 

 and UBCH tin- Foith l'.ii-iw (q.v.). 

 Its headquarters are at 23, Water- 

 fin burgh, where it owns 

 v Station, and its works 

 are at Cow lairs, Glasgow. Its 

 capital is 67,000,000. 



North brook 

 THOMAS i 

 BAUIM:. l-i 

 KARL 01 



1904). Uriti-h 

 politician. 

 Born Jan. 22, 

 ISL'tl, he was 

 the eldest son 

 of Sir Francis 

 I'.arin^, who, in 

 1866, was 

 created Baron 



Thomas Baring, 1st 

 Earl of Northbrook 



North Berwick, Haddingtonshire. Ruins of Tantallon 

 Castle, formerly a stronghold of the Douglas family 



frtlk 



Northbourne. Village of Kent, 

 England, 3 m. from Deal. The 

 chief building is the cruciform 

 church of S. Augustine. The village 

 gives the title of baron to the family 

 of James, whose residence, Bettes- 

 hanger, is near. The title dates 

 from 1884, when Sir W. C. James, 

 Bart., M.P., was made a baron. 



North British Railway. Scot- 

 tish rly. company. Ita first line, 

 fi-oin Kdinburgh to Berwick, with a 

 branch to Haddington, was opened 

 in 1846, and in 1865 it took over 



Sttrroieopit Co. 



Northbrook. Educated at Christ 

 Church, Oxford, he entered Parlia- 

 ment in 1857 as a Liberal for Pen- 

 ryn an-l }'.(.'.<: .IIT |,. 

 and the same year 

 t was made a lord of 

 the admiralty. In 

 1866 he succeeded 

 to the peerage. 

 Northbrook was 

 iinder-secretary for 

 war 1868-72, and 

 from 1872-76 vice- 

 roy of India. In 

 1876 he was made 

 i\n earl, and from 

 1880-85 he was 

 first lord of the 

 admiralty. In 

 1885 he separated 

 himself from Gladstone, being op- 

 posed to Home Rule. He died 

 Nov. 15, 1904. The family seat 

 is Stratton, near Winchester 

 Baring; consult also Memoir, B. 

 Mallet, 1908. 



North Cape. Promontory on 

 Magero Island, N. Norway. Geiu-r- 

 -opted as the northernmost 

 point of F.urojH, its lat. is 

 71 10' 40" N. The most northerly 

 continental point is Xordkyn. A 

 dark, slate-coloured rock, it reaches 

 an elevation of 968 ft 



