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 1854. A memoir of A. L. Newton, By Rev. John Baillie, 2 ed. (1856) portrait.
NEWTON, Alfred Pizzi. b. Essex 1830; painted water-colour pictures in the highlands of Scotland; selected by the queen to paint a picture as a wedding gift to the princess royal 1858; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours 1 March 1858, member 24 March 1879; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1855–9; his best known pictures are Mountain gloom 1860, The Mountain pass 1880, and Shetland desolation 1882. d. at house of his father-in-law Edward Wylie 14 Rock park, Rockferry, Liverpool 9 Sept. 1883. I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1883 p. 405 portrait.
NEWTON, Ann Mary (dau. of Joseph Severn, painter, d. Rome 2 Aug. 1879). b. Rome 29 June 1832; studied under Ary Scheffer in Paris; painted many portraits in England; exhibited 7 portraits at the R.A. 1863–5; m. 27 April 1861 Sir Charles Thomas Newton 1816–94; made many drawings of the antiquities at the British Museum for her husband’s books and lectures; made many sketches in Greece and Asia Minor. d. 37 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 Jany. 1866.
NEWTON, Sir Charles Thomas (son of rev. Newton Dickinson Hand Newton, V. of Bredwardine, Hereford, d. 1853). b. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1875; LL.D. Cambridge and Ph.D. Strasburg 1879; Assistant in department of antiquities, British Museum May 1840 to Jany. 1852; vice consul at Mytilene 24 Jany. 1852; acting consul at Rhodes April 1852 to Jany. 1853; superintended excavations at Budrum and Cape Crio April 1856 to April 1859, discovered the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus; consul at Rome 10 June 1859 to 16 Jany. 1861; head of department of Greek and Roman antiquities in British Museum 17 Jany. 1861, resigned Dec. 1885; purchased for the Museum 1874 the collection of gems of the Duc de Blacus for £48,000, also the collection of bronzes, vases, &c. of Alexandro Castellani; antiquary to the Royal academy; corresponding member of the French institute; hon. fell. of Worcester coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1874; C.B. 16 Nov. 1875, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; presided at nearly all the meetings of the Hellenic Society 1879–84; the first professor of archæology in Univ. coll. London July 1880, resigned 1889; author of Notes on the sculptures at Wilton house, privately printed 1849; A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchida, 2 vols. 1862; Travels and discoveries in the Levant, 2 vols. 1865; Essays on art and archæology 1880; translated Panofka’s Manners and customs of the Greeks 1849; edited The collection of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British museum 1874. d. Westgate-on-Sea, Kent 28 Nov. 1894. National Review Jany. 1895 pp. 616–27; I.L.N. 8 Dec. 1894 p. 700 portrait; Times 30 Nov. 1894 p. 10.
NEWTON, Horace Parker (3 son of Wm. Newton of Elveden, Suffolk). b. 29 Oct. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 11 Jany. 1843, col. 4 Feb. 1874; served in Crimean war 1854–6; commanded R.A. in Western district 1876–81; M.G. 13 Feb. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Feb. 1882. d. London 23 Sept. 1890.
NEWTON, Richard. b. Liverpool 25 July 1813; graduated at univ. of Pennsylvania 1836, and at general theological seminary, New York 1839; R. of Holy Trinity ch., West Chester 1839; R. of St. Paul’s ch., Philadelphia 1840–62; R. of ch. of the Epiphany, Philadelphia 1862–81; R. of ch. of the Covenant, Philadelphia 1881 to death; D.D. Kenyon college, Ohio 1862; his sermons for children have been translated into French, German, Arabic, and other languages; author of The giants and how to fight them 1861, 9 ed. 1881; Rills from the fountain of life 1860, 6 ed. 1877; The king’s highway 1861; 5 ed. 1878; Bible jewels 1868, 3 ed. 1877, Nature’s mighty wonders 1871, 2 ed. 1877. d. Philadelphia 25 May 1887. R. Newton’s The heath in the wilderness, to which is added the story of his life by W. W. N., New York (1888).
NEWTON, Robert (4 son of Francis Newton, farmer 1732–1816). b. Roxby, north riding of Yorkshire 8 Sept. 1780; preached his first sermon 1798; Wesleyan minister in London 1812–4, at Liverpool 1817–20, 1826–32 and 1850–2, at Manchester 1820–6, 1832–5 and 1841–7, at Leeds 1835–41, and at Stockport 1847–50; gave his services during the week to the rural districts, travelling from six to eight thousand miles a year on preaching tours; president of the Wesleyan conference 1824, 1832, 1840 and 1848, secretary of the conference 19 times; visited Ireland 1822 for first time, and America 1839; created D.D. by an American univ. 1839; author of Memoirs of the late Mr. Francis Newton, Wakefield 1817; Sermons on special and ordinary occasions, edited by J. H. Rigg 1856. d. Easingwold, near York 30 April 1854. T. Jackson’s Life of Rev. Robert Newton (1855) portrait; A. Stevens’s History of methodism ii 364–8, 442, 610, 647 (1873–4) portrait; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 129–41; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 269–81; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait; J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 189–93.
NEWTON, Thomas Duncombe (son of John Newton of the customs house, Plymouth). b. Weymouth 1799; educ. Totnes gram. sch.; member of Plymouth glee and madrigal club; a founder of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Roger, sacristan 17 May 1829; friend of Charles Mathews. d. 5 West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 1869. Wrights’ The Blue Friars (1889) 141, 217–18 portrait.
NEWTON, William (son of Mr. Newton of Chancery lane, London, globe maker). b. London 1786; globe maker, land surveyor, and draftsman at 66 Chancery lane, London, afterwards patent agent at same address to death; established London Journal of arts and sciences 1820, edited it to his death; introduced many valuable improvements into manufacture of globes and projection of maps; A.I.C.E. 1837; Associate of British archæological association 1846, contributed papers to the Journal; author of Letters and suggestions upon the amendment of the patent laws 1835; A display of heraldry 1846; London in the olden time 1855. d. Clarence house, Herne Bay 10 July 1861. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 593 (1862); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii 359–60 (1862).
NEWTON, William. Resided at 35 Arbour sq. Stepney, London; member of metropolitan board of works for Mile End Old Town 1862 to death. d. 41 Stepney Green, London 9 March 1876.