William Noble

Major-General William Henry Noble, FRS (14 October 1834 – 17 May 1892) was a British Army officer.

Life William Henry Noble, eldest son of Robert Noble, Rector of Athboy, County Meath, and grandson of William Newcome, Archbishop of Armagh, was born at Laniskea, County Fermanagh, on 14 October 1834. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where in 1856 he graduated BA with honours in experimental science, and proceeded MA in 1859.

At the end of the Crimean War, just before taking his first degree, he passed for a direct commission in the Royal Artillery, in which he was appointed lieutenant on 6 March 1856. He became captain in 1866, major in 1875, lieutenant-colonel in 1882, and brevet colonel in 1886.

Death He died at Thrift Hall, Waltham Abbey, on 17 May 1892, aged 57. Noble married in 1861 Emily, daughter of Frederick Marriott, one of the originators of the Illustrated London News, by whom he had two sons and four daughters.

Works Noble, who was an FRS London, and a member of various other learned societies, was author of:

Report of various Experiments carried out under the Direction of the Ordnance Select Committee relative to the Penetration of Iron Armour-plates by Steel Shot, with a Memorandum on the Penetration of Iron Ships by Steel and other Projectiles, London, 1886; Useful Tables (for Artillerymen). Computed by W. H. N., London, 1874; Descent of W. H. Noble from the Blood Royal of England, London, 1889.