Henry Wenman Newman
1788–1865
Army officer and landowner. Joined the South Gloucestershire Militia in 1814; captain, 1820; lieutenant-colonel commandant, 1854–60. Succeeded to his father’s estates at Thornbury Park, Gloucestershire, in 1829.
Sources
Burke’s landed gentry 1871
Modern English biography
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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