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Authorised form of nameNewton; Sir; Henry (1651 - 1715)
Dates1651 - 1715
NationalityBritish
Date of birth18 August 1651
Date of death29 July 1715
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Mercer's Chapel, London
OccupationAdvocate
ActivityEducation:
St Mary Hall, Oxford; BA (1668), MA (1671), BCL (1674); Merton College, Oxford; DCL (1678)
Career:
Travelled in Europe; Advocate in Doctors' Commons (1678); Chancellor of the Diocese of London (1685-1715); Official Principal to the Archdeacon of Essex; Admiralty Advocate (1694-1714); Envoy to the Grand Duke of Tuscany (1704-1709); Envoy Extraordinary to Genoa (1706-1707); Master of St Katharine's Hospital, near the Tower of London; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty (1714-1715); died suddenly of apoplexy
Honours:
Kt 1715
Memberships:
Accademia della Crusca
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/05/1709
RelationshipsSon of Henry Newton, Gent, of London and Highley, Essex, and his wife, Mary, daughter of R Hunt of Essex.
Married: 2) Mary, daughter of Thomas Manning.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Foster; Squibb
References:
Obituary in 'Historical Register Chronological Diary' 1715, p65
CodeNA7738
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/143Bond of Henry Newton to the Treasurer of the Royal Society8 November 1711
EL/N1/79Copy of a letter, from Henry Newton [to the Royal Society], dated at Florence5 March 1709
EL/G1/75Letter, from Guido Grandus to Henry Newton1713
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