NEWTON, THOMAS, only son of John Newton, Lichfield, Staffs., brandy and cider merchant, and his first wife Isabel, dau. of Rev. --- Rhodes; b. 21 Dec 1703; adm. Jun 1717; KS 1718; Capt. of the School 1722; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1723, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1723, scholar 17 Apr 1724; 8th in “ordo” 1726/7; BA 1726/7; MA 1730 (incorp. Oxford 13 Oct 1733); DD 1745; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1729, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1730; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1729, priest Feb 1730; Curate to his uncle Rev. Andrew Trebeck DD, Rector of St. George’s, Hanover Square, London; Lecturer and afternoon preacher, South Audley Street Chapel; morning preacher, Spring Gardens Chapel; Rector of St. Mary le Bow, Cheapside, London 16 Apr 1744-69; Chaplain to George II 1756 (still listed as Chaplain 1761); Prebendary of Westminster 22 Mar 1757-61; Sub-Almoner, Royal Household 25 Jun 1757 – Dec 1761; Precentor of York 16 Jun 1759- Dec 1761; President, Sion Coll. 1760; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 20 Nov 1761; consecrated Bishop of Bristol 28 Dec 1761; declined Archbishopric of Armagh and Primacy of Ireland 1764; Dean of St. Paul’s from 8 Oct 1768; author, A Dissertation on the Prophecies, 1754; gives some interesting information about his schoolfellows in his Autobiography; m. 1st, 18 Aug 1747 Jane, sister of James Trebeck (qv); m. 2nd, 5 Sep 1761 Elizabeth Vaughan, widow of Rev. Watson Hand, and illegitimate dau. of John Vaughan, 1st [check] Viscount Lisburne (I) MP; d. 14 Feb 1782. DNB.
NEWTON, RICHARD, youngest son of Thomas Newton, Lavendon, Bucks., and Katherine, dau. of Martin Hervey, Weston Favell, Northants; b. 8 Nov 1676; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1694, matr. 16 Jun 1694, Westminster Student 28 Jun 1795 – void 1707, Tutor 1703-7; BA 1698; MA 1701; BD 18 Mar 1707/8; DD 1710; ordained; Rector of Sudborough, Northants 14 Jun 1704-48; Rector of Lavendon, Bucks.; Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford 28 Jul 1710 – Aug 1740; endeavoured to establish it as a college for poor students desirous of taking orders; built part of the quadrangle at his own expense, and after a long struggle obtained a charter; first Principal of Hertford Coll. 27 Aug 1740; Canon of Christ Church from 5 Jan 1752/3; translated the Characters of Theophrastus into Latin, published 1754, and wrote several treatises on university education; m. 1st, Catherine, dau. of Andrew Adams, Welton, Northants; m. 2nd, lic. to m. 19 May 1744 Mary, fifth dau. of Sir Willoughby Hickman, Bart.; d. 21 Apr 1753. DNB.
NEWTON, NEWTON DICKENSON HAND, son of George Watson Hand (qv); b. 7 Dec 1778; adm. 6 Jul 1792 (Clapham); in school list 1795, sixth form list 1796 (as Hand, Christian name not stated); St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1802, aged 23; BA 1806; assumed additional surname of Newton 18 Apr 1806; ordained; Vicar of Bredwardine and Rector of Brobury, Herefs., from 18 May 1829; m. 24 Jul 1810 Julia Wyatt (IGI); d. 22 Nov 1853.
NEWTON, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1732; left 1735.
NEWTON, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1743/4; left 1745.
NEWTON, HUGH; b.; adm. 28 Mar 1769. [Perhaps Hugh Newton, son of Hugh Newton, and Jane --, bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 3 Nov 1754 (IGI)]
NEWTON, GEORGE; b.; adm. 26 Feb 1770, chorister; d. 1 May 1772, aged 12. Buried Dark Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
Newton, George Humphreys, son of Henry Cecil Newton, of Epsom, Surrey, by Catherine Amelia, daughter of Rees Charles Price, of Newton Abbot, Devon; b. Oct. 8, 1881; at Merchant Taylors' School 1891-2; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (G); left Dec. 1898; served in Paget's Horse in the South African War 1899-1901, and in India in Great War I; V.D. 1923; a civil engineer at Trichinopoly, South India; m. Nov. 24, 1909, Winifred Frances, second daughter of Richard Ladbroke Shubrick, of Trichinopoly.