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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