John Newey
John Newey (4 December 1664 – 13 September 1735)[1] was an English churchman, Dean of Chichester[2] from 1727 to 1735.[3]
Life
[edit]Born in Kinver, Staffordshire, he was the elder son of Jonathan Newey, Rector of Kinver. Newey was educated at Kinver and at Pembroke College, Oxford (BA: 1686; MA: 1689); DD, 1729.[1]
He married on 29 May 1707 Ann Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler and Dorothy, Wheeler's first wife.[4] They had two sons and four daughters: Mary (9 September 1708 – 3 January 1767) married Dr Benjamin Hoadly (Bishop of Winchester); John (c1711-20 April 1737), fellow of Merton College, Oxford; Ann; Jane; Katherine; Samuel (c1722-2 October 1739), educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.[5]
Newey died on 13 September 1735, at age 70 and is buried at Itchen Abbas church where he is commemorated in two memorials.[5][6]
Career
[edit]Ordained: deacon by John Hough, Bishop of Oxford, 25 June 1690; priest by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, 22 May 1692.[7]
Curate at Beckenham from 22 May 1692. Vicar at Wombourne (8 June 1693 – 10 March 1696).[7] He resigned from this position on grounds of ill health and moved to London becoming Professor of Music at Gresham College (9 October 1696 – 1 December 1705)[5] and being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (30 November 1696).[1] He resumed church duties becoming Rector and then Prebendary of Itchen Abbas (25 April 1707 – 13 September 1735) shortly before his marriage; Rector: Avington (9 April 1722 – 31 August 1726); Dean of Chichester (21 June 1728 – 13 September 1735).[7]
Newey's books were offered for sale after his death.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c The Royal Society. "Fellows Directory". Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex 1700-1745" Chamberlain,J.S: Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 1997 ISBN 0-252-02308-0
- ^ ”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900
- ^ The Parish registers of Oldswinford, Worcestershire: vol2, 1693-1718. Birmingham: Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry in conjunction with the Stourbridge Historical and Archaeological Society. 1974. p. 118.
- ^ a b c Ward, John (1740). The lives of the Professors of Gresham College : to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas GRESHAM. With an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, writen [sic] by the Professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives. London: for the Author; sold by W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, &c.; pr. John Moore. pp. 233–234.
- ^ George John Armytage, ed. (1899). "Obituary prior to 1800: (as far as relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland)". Internet Archive. Harleian Society. p. 283. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835". Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ Whiston, John (1738). A catalogue of several thousand volumes; among which is the library of John Newey, … Which will be sold … on Thursday the 16th of November 1738. s.n.: s.l.