The son of Thomas and Ann Noake, he was born at Sherborne, Dorset on 29 November 1816.
[1] Noake later worked on the Worcestershire Chronicle, and his last appointment was as sub-editor of the Worcester Herald.
For many years he was one of the honorary secretaries of the Worcester Diocesan Architectural and Archæological Society.
He found documents in a chest in the tower of St. Swithin's Church, Worcester that shed light on the history of the city.
[1] Noake married, first, Miss Woodyatt of Ashperton, Herefordshire, by whom he had a son Charles, and a daughter who became Mrs. Badham; secondly, Miss Brown of Shrewsbury; thirdly, in 1873, Mrs. Stephens (died 1893), widow of a Worcester merchant.