William Romaine Newbold

William Romaine Newbold
Portrait from University of Pennsylvania, 1887
Born	(1865-11-20)November 20, 1865 Wilmington, Delaware
Died	September 8, 1926(1926-09-08) (aged 60) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Occupation	Philosopher
Years active	1892-1926
Notable work	The Cipher of Roger Bacon

William Romaine Newbold (November 20, 1865 – September 8, 1926) was an American philosopher who held the Adam Seybert Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1926. Newbold was considered an authority on the psychology of religion, Christian Gnosticism, and cryptography.^[1] Newbold became most noted for his decoding of the Voynich Manuscript, later disproven.