Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work, memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen, displayed in locations such as Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and Parliament Square, London.

He left Yorkshire for London when quite young, there he studied under John Francis (the father of sculptor Mary Thornycroft).

Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 until his death, Noble became recognised after winning the competition to construct the Wellington Monument in Manchester in 1856.

[2] He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the west side of the main entrance path from the north, towards the central colonnade.

[3] His uncompleted works were finished by his assistant Joseph Edwards, who also discarded the studio's plaster models.