* Nevil Shute ( Nevil Shute Norway ), the Ealing-born aeronautical engineer and novelist lived at Pond Head on Hayling Island during World War II.

* 1899 – Nevil Shute, English author ( d. 1960 )

* January 12 – Nevil Shute, English writer ( b. 1899 )

Nevil Shute Norway wrote that the loss of such a technically advanced engine was a great loss to Britain as well as Airspeed, and blamed the over-cautious high civil servants of the Air Ministry.

Airspeed Limited was established to build aeroplanes in 1931 in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway ( the aeronautical engineer and famous writer, who used his forenames as his pen-name ).

According to Nevil Shute Norway it was a very advanced engine ( and the price struck Shute as low ; much lower than competing engines on the basis of power-to-weight ratio ), so its loss was a major disaster for Airspeed ( and Britain ).

* Nevil Shute Norway, Slide Rule ( William Heinemann, London, 1954 ) Norway's biography covers his time at Airspeed in great detail

The movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel of the same name by Nevil Shute.

Nevil Shute Norway ( 17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960 ) was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer.

He used his full name in his engineering career, and ' Nevil Shute ' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.

However, he retains a core of dedicated readers who share information through various web pages such as The Nevil Shute Foundation.

Norway Road and Nevil Shute Road at Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire were both named after him.

* Smith, Julian Nevil Shute: A Biography The Paper Tiger, Creskill, NJ ( 2002 ) ISBN 1-889439-30-4.

* Croft, Julian ( 2000 ) ' Norway, Nevil Shute ( 1899 – 1960 )' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

* Giffuni, Cathy ( 1988 ) Nevil Shute, a bibliography Adelaide: Auslib Press ISBN 0-9589895-7-5.

* Anderson, John, Parallel Motion-a biography of Nevil Shute Norway The Paper Tiger, ( 2011 ) ISBN 978-1-889439-37-2

* The Nevil Shute Foundation

* 1765 – 1811 Nevil Maskelyne

* October 6 – Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal ( d. 1811 )

The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS ( 6 October 1732 – 20 July 1811 ) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal.

Their only child, Margaret ( 1786 – 1858 ), was the mother of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne ( 1823 – 1911 ) professor of mineralogy at Oxford ( 1856 – 95 ).

* Nevil Sidgwick ( Fellow 1901 – 1958 )

The town's formal charter for a weekly market and yearly fair date from a royal grant to Hugh Nevil in 1205, in which the founder's name is given as his father – in – law Stephen de Camera.

The school's old boys – or " Old Salopians " – include naturalist Charles Darwin, poet Sir Philip Sidney, his biographer, Fulke Greville, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, authors Samuel Butler and Nevil Shute, and broadcasters such as John Peel and Michael Palin.

* Nevil Shute – Trustee from the Toolroom ( published posthumously )

* January 12 – Nevil Shute, writer

* Colin Nevil Glen MacAndrew, 2nd Baron MacAndrew ( 1919 – 1989 )

#" Since When " – Robbie Nevil

A genre of such topical fiction sprang up in the late 1950s – led by Nevil Shute's On the Beach – of which Red Alert was among the earliest examples.

Nevil Vincent Sidgwick FRS ( 8 May 1873, Oxford – 15 March 1952, Oxford ) was an English theoretical chemist who made significant contributions to the theory of valency and chemical bonding.

In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in the following year he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London and reported on Nevil Maskelyne's determination of the mean density and mass of the earth from measurements taken in 1774 – 1776 at Schiehallion in Perthshire.

Sir Nevil Macready General Officer Commanding-in-chief of the British army in Ireland withheld his approval for such a force, along with his supporters in the Irish administration but were overridden ; Lloyd George approved of them from the beginning.

" Churchill's proposal was referred to a committee chaired by General Sir Nevil Macready, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Ireland.

General Sir Nevil Macready, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ireland then nominated a court of nine officers under a Brigadier-General Onslow.

* General Sir Nevil Macready 1920-1922

In October and November, Morgan went to Washington, to discuss the operation with the Combined Chiefs of Staff, accompanied only by Major General Nevil Brownjohn and an aide.

Henry would have retired in 1914, but the outbreak of the First World War convinced him to remain in office, as his designated successor, General Sir Nevil Macready, was required by the War Office, where he was Adjutant-General.

* An escaped convict from Dartmoor figures in Nevil Shute's first novel Marazan, published in 1926.

Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.

Through Nevil Maskelyne, whose acquaintance he had first made in the course of the celebrated Schiehallion experiments in 1774, he also gained access to the scientific circles of London.

The first official meeting was at the Green Man public house in Soho, but meetings were later in a room at St George's Hall in Langham Place, where David Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne were regularly seen performing.

* Kuantan features prominently in the first part of Nevil Shute's 1949 novel A Town Like Alice

The term " inert pair " was first proposed by Nevil Sidgwick in 1927.

The idea of a correlation between molecular geometry and number of valence electrons ( both shared and unshared ) was first presented in a Bakerian Lecture in 1940 by Nevil Sidgwick and Herbert Powell at the University of Oxford.

Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942.

The film is based on the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute, and was one of the first films that involved a potential aircraft crash.

Three years after the film and six years after Nevil Shute's original novel ( No Highway ) there were two fatal crashes of the world's first jet passenger airliner, the de Havilland Comet.