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Horace Newton (1844–1920) was a priest within the
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, and country landowner. In later life his residence was
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Background

The Newton family owned areas of prime
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land (such as part of New Street, including the site of the current Birmingham New Street station) with
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quarries and
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, Gwynedd. Ethel Street and Newton Street in Birmingham are named after the family. From a strong
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tradition, they were philanthropists who gave money, built churches (notably in Ullenhall, the estate village of
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) and donated to hospitals and other charities. On the death of his father William Newton II of
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and Whateley Hall, Horace Newton, with his brothers T. H.
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and Rev. William Newton III, inherited what was later described, in 1904, as "an absurdly large fortune". They bought a Scottish estate, the
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, and
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was designed by Horace and Goodwin Newton. Horace Newton extended the Beechwood Vicarage near
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, Yorkshire, when he was vicar there, using
Temple Moore Temple Lushington Moore (7 June 1856 – 30 June 1920) was an English architect who practised in London but whose work can be seen across England, particularly in the North. He is famous for a series of fine Gothic Revival churches built betwe ...
as architect.


Clerical career

Newton matriculated in 1860 at
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, graduating B.A. in 1864, and M.A. 1867. He was ordained deacon in 1865, and priest in 1866, and was curate at
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from 1865 to 1868. In 1869 Newton was appointed first vicar of Heworth, near York, and in 1878 he was appointed by Archbishop Thomson to the vicarage of Great-With-Little-Driffield. He became a
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of
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in 1885. While incumbent there he gave his own money for the rebuilding of Driffield Church. He employed three curates and two
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readers. He was then vicar of
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from 1892 to 1905.


Holmwood

Newton at the end of his life lived at Holmwood, Redditch. He had the house built for him by the architect
Temple Lushington Moore Temple Lushington Moore (7 June 1856 – 30 June 1920) was an English architect who practised in London but whose work can be seen across England, particularly in the North. He is famous for a series of fine Gothic Revival churches built betwe ...
, who was also a relative, having been offered the post by
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Legacy

In the 1970s, when the
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was opened in Redditch an office block was named after him within the centre: Canon Newton House.


Family

Newton married twice: # In 1866 to Frances (Fanny) Storrs in 1866, the younger daughter of Robert Storrs of
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. Storrs, a surgeon-apothecary, was the first medical man to note the connection of cleanliness and infection during child birth, before the more famous
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. Frances's elder sister Anne in 1855 married the Rev. Richard Wilton of
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, and was the mother of Emma Storrs Wilton (1856–1938) who married Temple Moore in 1884. # After Fanny's death, in 1905 to Katherine Constance Mackrell, daughter of Thomas William Mackrell of Wandsworth, and sister of Matilda who married his brother Goodwin as his second wife. She died in 1921. There were seven children of the first marriage: *Ethel, married Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, the evangelical
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and
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book reformer *Madeleine *Elsie, married in 1900 Henry Tomson Milward, son of Victor Milward MP. *Margaret *Dorothea *Marjorie *Horace – died in 1917, having drowned in the
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(then called
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) with the 13th Hussars. He was buried in
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, Horace 19th-century English Anglican priests English philanthropists 1844 births 1920 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge