NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM English scholar and miscellaneous writer, younger brother of Cardinal Newman, was born in London on June 27, 1805. He was edu cated at Ealing, and at Oxford, where he was elected fellow of Balliol in 1826. Conscientious scruples respecting the ceremony of infant baptism led him to resign his fellowship in 1830, and he went to Baghdad as assistant in the mission of the Rev. A. N. Groves. In 1833 he returned to England on behalf of the mission, but finding himself suspected of heterodoxy, he became classical tutor in an unsectarian college at Bristol. In 1840 he became professor of Latin in Manchester New College, the Unitarian seminary long established at York, and the parent of Manchester college, Oxford. In 1846 he became professor in University col lege, London, where he remained until 1869. In 1847 he pub lished anonymously a History of tile Hebrew Monarchy, intended to introduce the results of German investigation in this depart ment of Biblical criticism. In 1849 appeared The Soul, her
Sorrows and Aspirations, and in 1850, Phases of Faith, or Passages from the History of my Creed—the former a tender but search ing analysis of the relations of the spirit of man with the Creator; the latter a religious autobiography detailing the author's pas sage from Calvinism to pure theism. It is on these two books that Prof. Newman's fame rests, though he was a versatile writer on many subjects. His last publication, Contributions chiefly to the Early History of Cardinal Newman (1891), was severely criticised. He died at Weston-super-Mare on Oct. 7, 1897.
See T. G. Sieveking, Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman (1909).