| Authorised form of name | Newall; Robert Stirling (1812 - 1889); engineer and astronomer |
| Dates | 1812 - 1889 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dundee, Angus, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 27 May 1812 |
| Place of death | Ferndene, near Gateshead, County Durham, England |
| Date of death | 21 April 1889 |
| Occupation | Mechanical engineer |
| Research field | Mechanical engineering |
| Engineering |
| Astronomy |
| Activity | Career:
Worked in a mercantile office, Dundee; went to London and studied the rapid generation of steam; took out a patent for wire ropes (1840); laid submarine telegraphic cables; invented the brake-drum and cone for deep-sea cable-laying (1853); improved telescopes.
Memberships:
FRAS (1864); North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; MIMechE
Awards/Medals:
Rose of Brazil 1872 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1875 |
| Age at election | 63 |
| Proposer | Warington Wilkinson Smyth; Edward William Cooke; Balfour Stewart; Archibald Geikie; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Thomas Sopwith; Robert Hunt; Henry Baker Tristram |
| William Henry Leighton Russell; George Biddell Airy; John Couch; William Huggins; Williamm Lassell; Warren De La Rue; Charles Pritchard; Isaac Fletcher; Alexander Strange; Charles Vincent Walker; Thomas Webster |
| Relationships | Parents: Walter Newall, merchant, and Janet Hair
Spouse: Mary, youngest daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson (FRS 1852), (14 February 1849) |
| OtherInfo | Known for the submarine telegraph cable. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889 vol 46 pp xxxiii-xxxv signed by J N L
Notes:
E W Cooke has signed election certificate twice |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/24069602 |
| Code | NA5504 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/1/577 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Stirilin Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 September 1887 |
| EC/1875/28 | Newall, Robert Stirling: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/9/585 | Letter from R S [Robert Stirling] Newall, Ferndene, Gateshead on Tyne, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 18 June 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/12/277 | Letter from R S [Robert Stirling] Newall, Ferndene, Gateshead, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 13 October 1882 |
| MC/12/280 | Letter from R S [Robert Stirling] Newall, Ferndene, Gateshead, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 29 October 1882 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| MS/257/3/190 | Letter from Robert Sterling Newall, Bensham Lodge, Gateshead to Edward Sabine | 21 June 1845 |
| HS/13/150 | Letter, from Robert Stirling Newall to Sir John Herschel, dated at Gateshead | 12 August 1865 |