NEWLAND, Henry Garrett. b. London 1804; taken to Sicily 1809; ed. at Lausanne 1816; matric. from Christ’s coll. Camb. 1821. migrated to C.C. coll., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Westbourne, Sussex Sept. 1829; V. of Westbourne Jany. 1834 to 1855, where he established a daily choral service 1850; V. of St. Mary-Church, near Torquay 1855 to death; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1855 to death; author of The Erne, its legends and its fly-fishing 1851; Confession and absolution 1852; Three lectures on tractarianism 1854, 4 ed. 1853; The seasons of the church, what they teach, 3 vols. 1856–60; Confirmation and first communion 1853, 2 ed. 1854; Postils, short sermons on the parables 1854; Forest scenes in Norway and Sweden 1854. d. St. Mary-Church 25 June 1860. R. J. Shutte’s Memoir of H. G. Newland (1861) portrait.
NEWLANDS, James (son of a rope manufacturer). b. Edinburgh 28 July 1813; assistant to David Low, professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1833–36; the first borough engineer of Liverpool 26 Jany. 1847 to May 1871, constructed a new system of sewage; A.I.C.E. 6 June 1848, M.I.C.E 20 Jany. 1857; his paintings exhibited in Royal Scottish academy; sent by government to Balaklava during Crimean war as sanitary commissioner 1855; author of Liverpool water supply, a report 1849; The carpenter and joiner’s assistant 1857–60, new ed. 1880; wrote for 7 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica the articles ropemaking and history of steam navigation, also contributed to 8 edition. d. Liverpool 15 July 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 227–31 (1872).
NEWMAN, Alfred A. (eld. son of S. Newman of Forest Hill, Surrey). b. 1852; art metal worker 19 Maddox st. Regent st. London 1884; did much to revive art iron work and was a craftsman of talent; founded the Old English Smithy in Archer st. Haymarket, London, which was a place of fashionable resort in the season; made the wrought iron work for Eaton hall, Cheshire; an art commissioner and expert for the Folkestone exhibition 1886; his forge at the Inventions’ exhibition 1885 was one of the most interesting sights; took great interest in Anglo Jewish history and made a collection of prints and tracts on the subject; his efforts defeated the proposal to demolish Bevis Marks synagogue 1886. d. 30 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 21 Jany. 1887. bur. Willesden cemetery 24 Jany. The Jewish Chronicle 28 Jany. 1887 p. 5.
NEWMAN, Arthur Shean. b. Old Bridge house, Southwark 1828; partner with Arthur Billing as architects; surveyor to Guy’s hospital and to St. Olave’s district board of works many years; designed St. James’s church, Kidbrook, Blackheath 1867, Christ church, Somers Town 1868, and Holy Trinity church, Penge 1872; restored Stepney church. d. 22 Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent 3 March 1873.
NEWMAN, Charles Robert (brother of cardinal John Henry Newman). Usher in a school at Windmill Hill, near Hurstmonceaux, Sussex 1845; an acquaintance of Julius Charles Hare; resided at Tenby 30 years; a very great recluse, lived alone in lodgings, seldom went out except after dark and had hardly any acquaintances; Thomas Purnell visited him 1857–60. d. Marsh road, Tenby March 1884. Athenæum 29 March 1884 pp. 408, 475.
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. 1882. bur. Haslar hospital with naval honors 8 Dec. The Engineer 8 Dec. 1882 p. 426; The Army and navy gazette 9 Dec. 1882 p. 1011; The Times 7 Dec. 1882 p. 10.
NEWMAN, Frederick, D.D.; a bishop of the Free church of England and president of the London district; author of The true church of Christ, a lecture 1856; Thoughts on church orders and government, historically, ecclesiastically and scripturally considered 1877. d. Willesborough, near Ashford, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. The Free church of England Mag. July 1884 p. 114 et 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.