Robert Edwin Newbery

Lt AV Taylor, Capt J Coutts and Lt RE Newbery MC, Officers of 55th Battalion Machine Gun Corps, in Belgium, 1919

Robert Edwin Newbery MC (1884–1967) was one of the two founding partners of Dale and Newbery, the firm of solicitors that has had offices in Southeast England since 1911.[1] He also co-invented the internal triple air flow regulator for the oil burning lamp, which widened the flame for increased light emittance.[2]

  1. ^ Dale and Newbery website http://www.qualitysolicitors.com/daleandnewbery
  2. ^ Improvements in or relating to oil burning lamps, Inventors: Robert Edwin Newbery and Richard Rutherford, Patent GB416934 A, filed 24 September 1934