Modern English biography

seq._ NEWMAN, HORATIO TOWNSEND. _b._ 1781; ordained deacon 6 July 1806, priest 12 July 1807; prebendary of Kilbrogan 1818–42; dean of Cork 24 March 1842 to death; author of A brief view of ecclesiastical history from the earliest periods to the present time 1844, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Cork 6 Jany. 1864. NEWMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1804; apprenticed to Gosling and Eglen of New Bond st. London, booksellers; historical and parliamentary bookseller at 225 High Holborn, London about 1830 to death. _d._ St. Leonard’s, near Hastings 28 May 1877. _Bookseller June 1877 p._ 500. NEWMAN, JOHN (son of John Newman, wholesale dealer in leather, _d._ Hampstead 1 Oct. 1808). _bapt._ at St. Sepulchre’s church, London 8 July 1786; employed under sir Robert Smirke in the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1809, and at the general post office 1823–9; one of the three surveyors in the commission of sewers for Kent and Surrey about 1815; designed R.C. church of St. Mary, Blomfield st. Moorfields, London 1817–20, the school for the blind in St. George’s fields, Southwark 1834–8, and St. Olave’s girls’ school, Maze road, Southwark 1839–40; clerk of the Bridge house estates; an original fellow of Institute of British architects 1834; F.S.A. 1830–49; his collection of the antiquities found in and near London, was sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1848; retired from practice 1851. _d._ at house of his son-in-law Dr. Alexander Spiers at Passy, near Paris 3 Jany. 1859. NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (eld. child of John Newman, partner in bank of Ramsbottoms, Newman, Ramsbottom and co. 72 Lombard street, London). _b._ Old Broad st. London 21 Feb. 1801; ed. at Dr. Nicholas’s school, Ealing 1808–16; entered at Trin. coll. Oxf. 14 Dec. 1816, scholar 1818; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1836; student at Lincoln’s inn 1819; fellow of Oriel coll. 12 April 1822, tutor 1826–32; C. of St. Clement’s ch. Oxford 13 June 1824; vice-principal of Alban Hall, Oxford March 1825–6; one of the preachers at Whitehall 1827; V. of St. Mary’s, Oxford 14 March 1828, resigned 18 Sept. 1843; a select univ. preacher 1831–2; began the Tracts for the times Sept. 1833, and eventually wrote 29 of the series; editor of The British Critic 1838 to July 1840; published Tract 90 1841; withdrew from Oxford 1841, resided at Littlemore monastery 1841–4; received into Church of Rome by Father Dominic the Passionist at Littlemore 9 Oct. 1845; quitted Oxford 23 Feb. 1846; ordained priest and received degree of doctor of divinity at Rome 30 May 1847; established the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Alcester st. Birmingham 1848, it was subsequently removed to Edgbaston; founded the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London, opened 31 May 1849, where he delivered his Lectures on Anglican difficulties; fined £100 by Mr. Justice Coleridge for libelling Dr. Achilli 23 Jany. 1853, his costs of £14,000 were defrayed by public subscription; rector of the Catholic university, Dublin 1854–8, which proved a failure; honorary fellow of Trin. coll. Oxf. 28 Dec. 1877; created cardinal of the title of St. George in Velabro at Rome 12 May 1879; author of Lyra Apostolica 1836, 3 ed. 1866; Parochial sermons, 6 vols. 1834–42; Lectures on justification 1838, 4 ed. 1885; An essay on the development of Christian doctrine 1845, 3 ed. 1878; Apologia pro vita sua 1864, 3 ed. 1873; The dream of Gerontius 1866, 23 ed. 1888; wrote upwards of 70 works, besides editing many others; to some of his publications very numerous printed replies were made; an edition of his works in 36 volumes was printed 1868–81. _d._ the Oratory, Edgbaston 11 Aug. 1890. _bur._ at Rednal, busts by Westmacott and Woolner, a statue is to be erected by public subscription in front of the London oratory in the Brompton road. _J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua_ (1864); _Anne Mozley’s Letters and correspondence of J. H. Newman_, 2 _vols._ 1891; _R. W. Church’s The Oxford movement_ (1891) 5 _et seq._; _Illust. Review iii_ 577–85 (1872) _portrait_; _R. H. Hutton’s Cardinal Newman_ (1891) _portrait_; _T. Mozley’s Reminiscences_, 2 _vols._ (1882) _passim_; _C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches_ (1883) 171–224; _Memoir of J. R. Hope-Scott_, 2 _vols._ (1884) _passim_; _Edgbastonia iv_ 65–69 (1884) _portrait_; _The Lamp ii_ 303 (1851) _portrait_; _Graphic xxii_ 497 (1880) _portrait_; _I.L.N. v_ 45 (1844) _portrait_, _lxxiv_ 456 (1879) _portrait_, _19 Oct. 1889 full page portrait_. NOTE.--He is described in Maude, or the Anglican sister of mercy, by Miss Elizabeth Jane Whately 1869, under the name of Dr. Oldacre. NEWMAN, SIR LYDSTON, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert William Newman, 1 bart., M.P. 1776–1848). _b._ Sandridge, Devon 14 Nov. 1823; ensign 72 Highlanders 28 March 1844, captain 19 July 1850, served at Gibraltar and in West Indies; capt. 7 hussars 17 June 1851, sold out 9 May 1856, served in the Crimea 1854–5; sheriff of Devon 1871; succeeded his brother sir R. Newman, who fell at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; kept race horses from 1856; had a large breeding establishment at Mamhead 1857–68, had annual sales in June when he obtained good prices; bought Gemma di Vergy for 1,010 guineas. _d._ Mamhead, near Exeter 29 Dec. 1892. _Biograph iii_ 220–4 (1880); _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 325–6 (1864) _portrait_; _lix_ 140 (1893). NEWMAN, WILLIAM ABIAH (eld. son of James Newman). _b._ St. Pancras, London 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; M.A. Oxford 1847, B.D. and D.D. 7 June 1855; C. of St. George’s, Wolverhampton 1840–54; C. of Collegiate church, Wolverhampton 1854; chaplain Wolverhampton general hospital; dean of Capetown 1851–8; special preacher for the S.P.G. 1856; C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1858–9; edited South African magazine 1850–52; author of The martyrs, the dreams, and other poems, Wolverhampton 1847; The gospel of Christ exemplified in the writings of Paul 1848; A lecture on the Cape of Good Hope 1856; St. Peter’s church, Wolverhampton, an address 1857. _d._ Hastings 7 Feb. 1864. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_ (1894) 327. NEWMARCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Thirsk, Yorkshire 28 Jany. 1820; second cashier in bank of Leatham, Tew, & Co. of Wakefield 1843–6; second officer of London branch of the Agra bank 1846–51; joined the staff of the Morning Chronicle about 1846; secretary of the Globe insurance co. 1851; manager in bank of Glyn, Mills, & co. 1862–81; secretary of the Statistical society 1862–9, edited the Journal for five years, president 1869; secretary of the Political economy club some years; gave evidence before select committee on the Bank acts 1857; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of The new supplies of gold 1853; On the loans raised by Mr. Pitt during the first French war 1793–1801, 1855; A history of prices and of the state of the circulation during the nine years 1848–56, 1857, translated into German; The political perils of 1859, 1859. _d._ 3 Sulyarde terrace, Torquay 23 March 1882. _bur._ Norwood 27 March, the Newmarch professorship of economic science and statistics at University college, London was founded in his memory. _Journal of Statistical Society_ (1882) 115–9, 209, 284, 333, 389, 397, 519–21; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv p. xvii_ (1883). NEWNHAM, WILLIAM (son of a general medical practitioner). _b._ Farnham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; pupil of sir Astley Cooper; practised at Farnham to 1856; an early member of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1836, a trustee of its benevolent fund and general manager 1847–55; author of A tribute of sympathy addressed to mourners 1817, 8 ed. 1842; An essay on inversio uteri 1818; The principles of physical, intellectual, moral, and religious education, 2 vols. 1827; Essay on superstition 1830; Essay on disorders incident to literary men 1836; Human magnetism, its claims to dispassionate inquiry 1845. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 24 Oct. 1865. NEWPORT, GEORGE (son of a wheelwright). b. Canterbury 4 July 1803; curator of Mr. Masters’s natural history museum; entered London univ. 16 Jany. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1835, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; house surgeon to Chichester infirmary April 1835 to Jany. 1837; practised in London 1837; received royal medal of Royal Society for his paper, printed in Philosophical Transactions 1851, pp. 169–242, entitled On the impregnation of the ovum in the amphibia; president of Entomological Soc. 1844–5; F.R.S. 26 March 1846, member of council to death; F.L.S. 1847; granted civil list pension of £100 a year 16 Nov. 1847; author of Observations on the anatomy, habits, and economy of Athalia Centifoliæ, the saw-fly of the turnip 1838; Catalogue of Myriapoda in the British Museum 1856. _d._ 55 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 7 April 1854. _Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_ 278–85 (1855); _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 309–12 (1855). NEWSOME, TIMOTHY (brother of James Newsome, circus proprietor). _b._ 1813; a lion tamer of great courage and nerve; served with Hilton, Manders, Wombwell, Batty, Newsome and other menagerie proprietors; received 25 wounds in an encounter with a lion at Middleton, near Manchester, when he killed the lion with a stroke from the butt end of a musket; his body was quite scarred with the wounds he had received in combats with wild animals; his wife, also a lion tamer, _d._ 1874, and was _bur._ Bury, Lincolnshire; he _d._ Preston, North Shields March 1890. _bur._ Preston cemetery 25 March. NEWSON, SAMUEL. _b._ 1816; a private in the army, served in the Crimea; a hawker of fish; a street itinerant in the neighbourhood of Shepherd’s market and other localities, who went about with a wooden sword reciting passages from Shakespeare, chiefly from Richard iii and Romeo and Juliet; generally called Richard the Third. _run over_ by a Hansom cab in Piccadilly, London 28 March 1880, on being taken to St. George’s hospital was found to be dead. _The Times 10 April 1880 p._ 12. NEWTON, ADELAIDE LEAPER. _b._ Derby 1 March 1824; author of The song of Solomon compared with other parts of scripture 1850; The epistle to the Hebrews compared with the old testament 1854; The heavenly life, select writings of A. L. Newton 1856; Sabbath hours 1862; The eternal purposes of God 1868. _d._ 26 April