NEWBURGH, Maria Cecilia Agatha Anna Josepha Laurentia Donata Melchiora Balthassara Gaspara Bandini, Countess of (only child of Vincent, prince Giustiniani, styled 6 earl of Newburgh 1762–1826). b. Rome 5 Feb. 1796; m. 21 Sept. 1815 Charles, 4 marquis Bandini and Rustano in the Roman states, he d. 5 June 1851; succeeded her father as princess Giustiniani and countess of Newburgh 13 Nov. 1826; naturalised by 20 and 21 Vict. cap. 14, 17 Aug. 1857; confirmed by the house of lords as countess of Newburgh 30 July 1858. d. Rome May 1878.
Note.—In the peerages of Burke, Lodge and Foster she is said to have died 8 Jany. 1877, but the death was not announced in The Times until 27 May 1878.
NEWBY, Emma (daughter of the rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycot Cerne, Wilts.) m. 27 June 1848, Charles John Newby of London, solicitor, who d. 27 Aug. 1867; author of Margaret Hamilton, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Right and left, 3 vols. 1862; Wondrous strange, 3 vols. 1864; Trodden down, 3 vols. 1866; Common sense, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; Only temper, 3 vols. 1868; Married, 3 vols. 1869; Langley manor, 3 vols. 1872; His wife, 3 vols. 1879.
NEWBY, Thomas Cautley. Publisher at 65 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 1843–4, at 72 Mortimer st. 1844–9, and at 30 Welbeck st. 1849–74; retired March 1874; one of the chief publishers of novels. d. 1882.
NEWCASTLE, Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 4 Duke of (elder son of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3 duke of Newcastle 1752–95). b. 30 Jany. 1785; styled lord Clinton 1785–94, and earl of Lincoln 1794–5; succeeded his father 17 May 1795; ed. at Eton 1796–1803; went to France 1803, detained there 1803–7; lord lieut. of Nottingham 20 Dec. 1809, dismissed 4 May 1839; K.G. 19 June 1812; the mob of Nottingham burnt Nottingham castle 10 Oct. 1831, for the damage done he was awarded sum of £21,000 in 1832; author of Thoughts in times past, tested by subsequent events 1836. d. Clumber Park, Notts. 12 Jany. 1851. bur. in Markham Clinton church 21 Jany. Portraits of eminent conservatives vol. 1 (1836) portrait 4; I.L.N. xviii 37, 62, 64 (1851) portrait; G.M. xxxv 309 (1851); Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire iii 405 (1797); J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii 566 (1886) portrait.
NEWCASTLE, Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 5 Duke of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 22 May 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832; styled Earl of Lincoln 1811–51; M.P. for South Notts. 1832–46, and for Falkirk burghs 1846–51; a lord of the treasury 31 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; P.C. 3 Sept. 1841; first comr. of woods and forests 25 Sept. 1841 to 10 March 1846; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 14 Feb. 1846 to 6 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 28 Dec. 1852 to June 1854; sec. of state for war 12 June 1854 to Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Notts. 2 Feb. 1857 to death; colonial sec. 18 June 1859 to April 1864; went to Canada and United States with prince of Wales 1860; lord warden of stannaries 6 Feb. 1862 to 1864; one of council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863; K.G. 17 Dec. 1860. d. Clumber park, Worksop, Notts. 18 Oct. 1864, personalty sworn under £250,000, 11 Feb. 1865. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 353–5; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 122–30; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 412–17; Men of the time, British statesmen (1854) 240–50; G.M. xvii 783–86 (1864); I.L.N. viii 129 (1846) portrait; The British cabinet in 1853, 240–50; Reynolds’s Miscellany xxvii 308 (1862) portrait.
NEWCASTLE, Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6 Duke of. b. 25 Jany. 1834; styled lord Clinton 1834–51, and earl of Lincoln 1851–64; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1852; M.P. Newark 1857–9; succeeded 18 Oct. 1864; kept race horses from 1856, but was always unfortunate; grand master of the freemasons of Nottingham; bankrupt 11 Feb. 1870, bankruptcy annulled 31 Jany. 1871. d. 10 Park place, St. James’s, London 22 Feb. 1879. Baily’s mag. xii 1–3 (1867) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 385, 386 (1857) portrait.
NEWCOMB, George. b. Chelmsford 1835; member of Smith’s circus at Chelmsford about 1852; engaged as bottom densman at Wombwell’s No. 2 menagerie at Ramsgate; became a lion tamer; had his left eye torn out by a leopard; had an encounter at Swindon with five African lions 1874, when he received 9 wounds on the right arm and other injuries, 3 of the lions died in the struggle. d. about 4 Jany. 1890.
NEWCOMBE, John Reilly. b. Bath 20 March 1803; bought the lease of the Swansea theatre; manager with Paul John Bedford of theatre royal, Bath 12 April to 22 May 1841; lessee and manager of theatre royal, Plymouth 16 April 1845 to death; lessee and manager of Devonport theatre to 1874, also of Barnstaple theatre; engaged Taglioni, the dancer, at salary of £100 a night 1845, Macready played at Plymouth in Sept. 1849, at a nightly salary of 50 guineas, to nearly empty houses, on account of the cholera epidemic; lost £10,000 during his first ten years 1845–55; the theatre partly burnt 1853; spent £3,000 renovating the theatre, which was opened 19 Aug. 1861; the house was damaged by fire 5 Jany. 1863, but re-opened 12 Jany.; it was burnt down 13 June 1878, when he lost £4,000, the theatre was rebuilt by the town council and re-opened 24 Dec. 1878; presented with £700 and a silver salver by 237 friends at duke of Cornwall hotel, Plymouth 6 Nov. 1878; was a good low comedian, his three best parts were the Widow Twankey, Bob Handy, and Jeremy Diddler; nearly always played in his Christmas pantomime; was the oldest lessee and manager in England, and had the last stock company in the provinces; hunted for 60 years down to a few months before his death; judge at Plymouth race meetings for some years; rode in several races. d. 4 Crescent place, Plymouth 18 July 1887. bur. Plymouth cemetery 21 July. Era 23 July 1887 p. 13; Western Morning News 19 July 1887 p. 5, 22 July p. 5.
Note.—He is drawn by Mortimer Collins in his novel Two plunges for a pearl, 3 vols. 1872, under name of Oldgo. His elder son Albert Newcombe, who was his treasurer and acting manager many years, d. 28 Jany. 1881, aged 48, and his younger son Arthur Newcombe d. 15 Aug. 1883, aged 34.