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SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE (1719-1806)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 476 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 of Richard See also:Cromwell's See also:protectorate . He was educated at University See also:College, See also: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 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 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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