See also:SIR See also:ROGER See also:NEWDIGATE (1719-1806)
, See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born on the 3oth of May 1719
.
He was the 5th See also:baronet of Harefield (in See also:Middlesex) and Arbury (in See also:Warwickshire), and See also:grandson of See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Newdigate, an English See also:chief See also:justice during the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Richard See also:Cromwell's See also:protectorate
.
He was educated at University See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
From 1741 to 1747 he was M.P. for Middlesex, and from 1750 to 1780 M.P. for the university of Oxford
.
In 1753 he spoke in See also:parliament on behalf of the See also:repeal of the See also:Plantation See also:Act, and during the debates on the See also:land tax in 1767 he opposed the See also:duke of See also:Grafton's See also:administration and the proposed See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to the royal princes
.
Being the owner of extensive collieries near See also:Bedworth in Warwickshire, he actively promoted the See also:Coventry, Oxford and See also:Grand Junction See also:canal, cutting also a canal from his collieries to Coventry, and interesting himself in the construction of the See also:turnpike road from
6 Astronomical Papers of the See also:American See also:Ephemeris, vol. viii. pts. i. and ii
.
Coventry to See also:Leicester
.
But it is as an antiquary and the founder of a See also:prize at the Oxford university that he is chiefly remembered
.
His See also:interest in old See also:architecture dated from a tour in See also:France and See also:Italy which was undertaken while he was a See also:young See also:man
.
He filled two See also:folio volumes with sketches of See also:ancient buildings
.
His collection of antiquities included See also:marbles, casts of statues and vases
.
Two See also:marble candelabra found in See also:Hadrian's See also:villa at See also:Rome he See also:purchased for £1800 and presented them to the See also:Radcliffe Library at Oxford
.
Among his other generosities to the university were a See also:chimney piece, for the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of University College, and the sum of £2000 for the removal by See also:Flaxman of the See also:Arundel collection of marbles to the Radcliffe Library
.
The " Newdigate " prize of twenty-one guineas for English See also:verse, which is open for competition each See also:year to the undergraduates of Oxford University, was founded by him and was first awarded in the year of his See also:death
.
He died at Arbury on the 23rd of See also:November 18o6
.
His portrait was painted by See also:Kirkby for University College, Oxford, and at the See also:age of sixty-three he aiso sat to See also:Romney
.
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