Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert William Newman, 1st Baronet (18 August 1776 – 24 January 1848)[1][2] was a British Whig politician.[3] He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bletchingley at a by-election in December 1812.[3]

He held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Exeter,[4] and held the seat until the 1826 general election, which he did not contest.[4]

He was created a baronet of Stokeley and of Mamhead in the County of Devon in 1836.[5] He lived at Mamhead House, which he had built in the 1820s, employing Anthony Salvin as architect.[6] He died, aged 71, and was succeeded by Sir Robert Lydston Newman, 2nd Baronet, who was killed in action at the battle of Inkerman.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
  3. ^ a b Stooks Smith, Henry (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  4. ^ a b Stooks Smith 1973, p. 70.
  5. ^ "No. 19359". The London Gazette. 23 February 1836. p. 358.
  6. ^ Allibone, Jill (1988). Anthony Salvin: Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-7188-2707-4.