Modern English biography

NEWMAN, EDWARD (eld. son of George Newman, woolstapler). _b._ Hampstead 13 May 1801; ed. at Painswick, Gloucs. 1812–7; a woolstapler with his father at Godalming, Surrey 1817–26; owned a ropewalk at Deptford 1826–37; printer with George Luxford at the sign of the Bouncing B, Ratcliff highway, London 1840, Luxford retired 1841; Newman removed to 9 Devonshire st. Bishopsgate 1841, retired 1870; one of the four founders of the Entomological club 1826, editor of the Journal started 1832, one of chief founders of Entomological Society which grew out of the club 1833; F.L.S. 1833; edited The Entomologist 1840–3, and The Zoologist, 34 vols. 1843–63, and Montagu’s A dictionary of British birds 1866; brought out and wrote much in The Phytologist, monthly magazine June 1841 to June 1854; curator of the Entomological club’s museum, to which he gave his entire collection 1842; natural history editor of The Field 1858 to death; author of The grammar of entomology 1835, 2 ed. under title of A familiar introduction to the history of insects 1841; A history of British ferns 1840, 3 ed. 1854; The insect hunter, or entomology in verse 1857 anon.; Birdnesting and bird skinning 1861, 2 ed. 1888; edited An illustrated history of British moths 1869; An illustrated history of British butterflies 1870–1. _d._ 7 York grove, Peckham 12 June 1876. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery. _T. P. Newman’s Memoir of Edward Newman_ (1876) _portrait_; _Joseph Smith’s Friends’ Books ii_ 236–7 (1867); _Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888) 467–72; _Leisure Hour xxix_ 629. NEWMAN, EDWARD. _b._ Newton Abbot, Devon 1832; an engineer in Swindon locomotive works; second class assist. engineer R.N. Oct. 1853, engineer June 1859, chief engineer 26 Feb. 1866; first assistant to chief engineer at Portsmouth 1867, superintendent of the steam department 1872 to death; wounded in the explosion on board the Thunderer 14 July 1876, when superintending the trial of the engines, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. _d._ Portsmouth dockyard 4 Dec.