| Authorised form of name | Newton; Alfred (1829 - 1907); zoologist |
| Dates | 1829 - 1907 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Les Délices, Geneva, Switzerland, Europe |
| Date of birth | 11 June 1829 |
| Place of death | Old Lodge at Magdalene, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 07 June 1907 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge, London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Research field | Ornithology |
| Activity | Education:
Magdalene College, Cambridge. BA (1853), MA
Career:
Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; Drury Travelling Fellow, studying ornithology in Lapland and Iceland (1854-1863); visited the West Indies and North America (1857) and Madeira (1862); visited Spitsbergen (1864); Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge (1866-1907); edited Ibis (1865-1870); died of heart disease following a bout of dropsy.
Awards/Medals:
Gold medal of the Linnean Society 1900 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1870 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| Proposer | Edward Joseph Lowe |
| Thomas Spencer Cobbold |
| David Thomas Ansted |
| William Kitchen Parker |
| James Salter |
| John Gwyn Jeffreys |
| Thomas Blizard Curling |
| Joseph Prestwich |
| Edward William Brayley |
| Adam Sedgwick |
| George Murray Humphry |
| Albert Gunther |
| Charles Cardale Babington |
| Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Henry Baker Tristram |
| George Busk |
| William Henry Flower |
| John Edw Gray |
| Charles Darwin |
| Charles Lyell |
| Richard Owen |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1889-1891
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1900 |
| Relationships | Parents: William Newton of Elvedon, Suffolk, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Sclater Milnes of Fryston Hall, Yorkshire. The family moved to Elveden in 1813 from their sugar plantations in St Croix in the West Indies, which they retained.
Cousin: Richard Monckton Miles (FRS 1868) |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 56870
RCN 15732
RCN 56871 |
| OtherInfo | Founded the British Ornithologists Union in 1858. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1908 vol 80 pp xlv-xlix signed by A G
References:
Sir Gavin de Beer, ed, 'Some Unpublished Letters of Charles Darwin' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 12-66 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/64772155 |
| Code | NA3013 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MM/21/17 | Letter from Alfred Newton to AB Hewetson | 17 September 1879 |
| EC/1870/07 | Newton, Alfred: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/3/58 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 26 February 1889 |
| NLB/3/335 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 May 1889 |
| NLB/3/1002 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 December 1889 |
| NLB/3/1070 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 3 January 1890 |
| NLB/8/419 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Dulau & Company | 23 October 1893 |
| NLB/7/200 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 December 1892 |
| NLB/11/110 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 April 1895 |
| NLB/9/393 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 May 1894 |
| NLB/11/70 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 April 1895 |
| NLB/22/821 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Alfred] Newton, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 28 July 1901 |
| NLB/12/457 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 21 February 1896 |
| NLB/12/814 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 11 May 1896 |
| NLB/14/469 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton and Dr Edward John Routh, Fellows of the Royal Society | 16 March 1897 |
| NLB/16/328 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Managers Balfour Memorial Fund | 18 March 1898 |
| NLB/18/291 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor A Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 February 1899 |
| NLB/21/360 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 November 1900 |
| NLB/23/1/617 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 December 1901 |
| NLB/27/175 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 July 1903 |
| NLB/31/801 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 15 November 1905 |
| NLB/35/522 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 8 June 1907 |
| NLB/35/643 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Hans Friedrich Gadow, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 June 1907 |
| MC/10/197 | Letter from Alfred Newton, 10 Beaufort Gardens, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 19 January 1875 |
| RR/6/200 | Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the osteology of the solitaire or Didine Bird of the Island of Rodriguez, Pezophaps solitaria ( Gmel.)' by Alfred Newton and Edward Newton | 7 July 1868 |
| NLB/7/530 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 7 March 1893 |
| NLB/11/196 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 May 1895 |
| NLB/8/405 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 20 October 1893 |
| MC/16/356 | Letter from Alfred Newton, Magdelene College, Cambridge to the Royal Society | 1 December 1896 |
| PP/14/26 | Paper, 'Contribution to the anatomy of fishes. I. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the Siluridae' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon | 1889 |
| MC/9/140 | Letter from Alfred Newton, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | November 1870 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/10/202 | Letter from Alfred Newton, 10 Beaufort Gardens, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 24 January 1875 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| RR/6/201 | Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the osteology of the solitaire or Didine Bird of the Island of Rodriguez, Pezophaps solitaria ( Gmel.)' by Alfred Newton and Edward Newton | 19 August 1868 |
| PP/23/31 | Paper, 'Note on the production of sounds by the air-bladder of certain siluroid fishes' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon | 1894 |
| MC/16/354 | Letter from Alfred Newton, Magdelene College, Cambridge to [Herbert] Rix | 24 November 1896 |