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NORTON. 631 NORTON. Infidelity ( 1830) . Specimens of his verse may be si'i'ii in (liiswold's Poets and Poetry of America (I'liihul.-liihia, 1842). NORTON, C'.RoLixE Elizabeth Saraji { 1808- 77). A r.iitish authur, born iu Lomlon. Her father «as Thomas Sheridan, and licr jjrand- father Richard Brinslej' Sheridan (q.v.). Her talent deeloped at an early age, and when only thirteen she wrote The Dandies' Rout. Her Sorroivs of Rosalie: a Tale, icith Other Poems, appeared in 1829, two years after her unfortu- nate marriage to an impecunious liarrislcr, the Hon. George Chappie Xorton, whom she vir- tually !,up]>urted for many years. Her marital troul)les led her to publish a pamphlet on Eng- lish Lairs for Women in the Nineteenth Cen- tury, which, together with some other writings, undoubtedly had considerable influence in caus- ing those laws to be changed. Her reputation rests chiefly upon her poeins, most of which were written in the style of Byron, though a few, like "The Faded Flower" and "Joe Steel." show- that she could have written eipially well in quite a different vein had she so chosen. Among her other works are A Voiee from, the Factories ( lS.3r,) . and The Child of the Islands ( 1845) . NORTON, Charles Bowter Addebley, first Baron (1814 — ). An English public man, born iu Knighton. Leicestershire. He graduated at Christ Church in 1S35, and was Conservative member of Parliament for North Staffordshire in 1841-78. During that time he was president of the Board of Health, vice-president of the Educa- tion Council ( 1858-59), Colonial Under Secretary ( 18()(i-(>S), and president of the Board of Trade (1874-78). He was knighted (1811!)) and made a peer of the realm (1878). with a title taken from his estate, Norton-on-the-JIoors, Stafford- sliire. He interested himself in education, par- ticulai'ly in reformatory schools, and published books on the subject, besides one on ,Soeialism. (1800) and another on Bigh and Lotr Church (18081. NORTON, Charles Eliot (1827—). An American scholar, son of Andrews Norton. He was graduated from Harvard in 184G, and began his career in a business house in Boston engaged in the India trade. In 1S40 he went to India and to Europe, and thenceforth devoted himself to scliolarship and literature. During the Civil War he was editor of the Loyal Publication So- ciety papers, and from 1804 to 1808 was editor, with J. R. Lowell, of The Xorth American Re- riew. In 1875 he became professor of the history of art in Harvard University, and was made pro- fessor emeritus in 1000. He came to stand, more than any other American perhaps, for the finer ideals of culture, and was in conscfjuence often misjudged for utterances which seemed unpatri- otic, but were reallv inspircil bv a desire to pro- mote the higher interests of his f(dlnw citizens. His work in literature, which deals chiefly with Italy, consists of : Considerations on Some Recent Social Theories (1853) ; The Xew Life of Dante (1850; parts translated with essays; complete translation in 1867) : Notes of Trarel and Study hi Italy (1800) : Historical Study of Church- liuilding in the Middle Ages (ISSOJ ; The Dirine Comedy of Dante (1801-02). a very helpful prose translation. He was also the literary executor and editor of several important men of letters, as Lowell, Carlyle, Emerson, G. W. Curtis, Ruskin (the "Brantwood Edition"), and A. H. Clough {Poems), of all of whom he was a personal friend. NORTON, I'liAiiLEs Ledyaki) (1837—). An American journalist and author, born in Farm- ington, Conn., and educated at Yale, where he graduated in 1850. He continued his studies at the Sheflield Scientifle School until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New York State National Guard. In 1802 he was ai)pointed captain in the Twenty- fifth Connecticut 'oluntcers, and from 1803 until he was nuistered out in 180G was colonel of the Seventy-eighth Regiment United States colored troops, with main duties in the De|)art- ment of the Gulf. He conuuanded a large dis- trict in western Louisiana during the early months of reconstruction, and then for a year was manager of a cotton plantation in southern Louisiana. Forced by ill health to turn to liter- ary pursuits, he edited the Christian Union from 1808 to 1878, and was subsequently connected editorially with the Domestic Monthly, Our Con- tinent, and Outing. His published works include: Canoeing in KanucLia (with .lohn Habberton, 1878); .i Handhook of Florida (3d ed. 1802); Political Americanisms (1890); and Jaclc Ben- son's Log (1895). NORTON, Frank Henry (1836—). An American author and journalist, born in Hing- ham, Mass., and educated at the Dwight School in Boston and at the Pictou Academy. Nova Scotia. He was assistant librarian and then as- sistant superintendent of the Astor Library. New Y'ork City, from 1855 to 1865, and from 1806 to 1867 was head librarian of the ilercantile Li- brary of Brooklyn. In 1872 he entered journal- ism, from 1870 to 1881 was editor and owner of the New York Era. and from 1883 to 1801 was a member of the New Y'ork Herald staft'. He wrote various burlesques and melodramas, among which are Alhamhra, Azrael, Cupid and Psyche, and Leonie, and published Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition, 1876. and of the Paris Exposition, itS7'S (1878) ; Life of ^y infield Scott Hancock (with D. K. Junkin, 1880) ; Life of Alexander II. Stephens' (1883); Daniel Boone (1883): and The Malachite Cross (1894). NORTON, Sidney Augustus ( 1835— ) . An American chemist, born at Bloorafield, Trumbull County, Ohio. He graduated at ITnion College in 1856, "and at the Miami Medical College in 1867, and studied chemistry at Bonn, Leipzig, and Heidelberg. He then taught for a number of years, and in 1873 was appointed professor of "chemistry at the Ohio State University. He published: Elements of Natural Philosophy (1870) ; Essays and Notes (1874) : Elements of Physics (1875); Elements of Inorganic Chem- istry (1878) ; and Organic Chemistry (1884). NORTON, Thomas (15.32-84). An English poet, born in Lonilon. When a boy he became amanuensis to the Protector Somerset ; and at the age of eighteen published a translation of the "Letter which Peter Martyr wrote to the Duke of Somerset." a valuable document, as the original is lost. In 1555 he entere<l the Inner Temple as student, and afterwards ])racticcd law, becoming coinisel for the Stationers' Company (1562). and solicitor to the Merchant Tailors' Company (1581). Entering Parliament in 1558,