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FRANCIS WILLIAM NEWMAN (1805-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 517 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:WILLIAM See also:NEWMAN (1805-1897)  , See also:English See also:scholar and See also:miscellaneous writer, younger See also:brother of See also:Cardinal See also:Newman, was See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of See also:June 1805 . Like his brother, he was educated at See also:Ealing, and subsequently at See also:Oxford, where he had a brilliant career, obtaining a See also:double first class in 1826 . He was elected See also:fellow of Balliol in the same See also:year . Conscientious scruples respecting the ceremony of See also:infant See also:baptism led him to resign his fellowship in 1830, and he went to Baghdad as assistant in the See also:mission of the Rev . A . N . Groves . In 1833 he returned to See also:England to procure additional support for the mission, but rumours of unsoundness in his views on the See also:doctrine of eternal See also:punishment had preceded him, and finding himself generally looked upon with suspicion, he gave up the vocation of missionary to become classical See also:tutor in an unsectarian See also:college at See also:Bristol . His letters written See also:home during the See also:period of his mission were collected and published in 1856, and See also:form an interesting little See also:volume . Newman's views matured rapidly, and in 1840 he became See also:professor of Latin in See also:Manchester New College, the celebrated Unitarian See also:seminary See also:long established at See also:York, and the See also:parent of Manchester College, Oxford . In 1846 he quitted this See also:appointment to become professor in University College, London, where he remained until 1869 . During all this period 1 See also:Morgan had been made See also:Indian See also:agent at Fort See also:Pitt (See also:Pittsburg) in 1776, and was commissioned a See also:colonel in the See also:Continental See also:Army in 1777 .

In 1806 he was visited at his home, near Pittsburg, by See also:

Aaron See also:Burr, who told him something about his famous " See also:conspiracy See also:scheme in the See also:West, which Morgan reported to See also:Jefferson—" the very first intimation I had of the See also:plot," Jefferson afterward wrote to Morgan . he was assiduously carrying on his studies in See also:mathematics and See also:oriental See also:languages, but wrote little until 1847, when he published anonymously a See also:History of the See also:Hebrew See also:Monarchy, intended to introduce the results of See also:German investigation in this See also:department of Biblical See also:criticism . In 1849 appeared The Soul, her Sorrows and Aspirations, and in 185o, Phases of Faith, or Passages from the History of my Creed—the former a See also:tender but searching See also:analysis of the relations of the spirit of See also:man with the Creator; the latter a religious autobiography detailing the author's passage from Calvinism to pure See also:theism . It is on these two books that Professor Newman's celebrity will principally See also:rest; having in both to describe his See also:personal experience, his intense earnestness has kept him See also:free from the eccentricity which marred most of his other writings, excepting his contributions to mathematical See also:research and oriental See also:philology . There was, indeed, scarcely a See also:crotchet, except " See also:spiritualism," of which he was not at one See also:time or another the See also:advocate . His versatility was amazing: he wrote on See also:logic, See also:political See also:economy, English reforms, See also:Austrian politics, See also:Roman history, See also:diet, See also:grammar, the most abstruse departments of mathematics, Arabic, the emendation of See also:Greek texts, and languages as out of the way as the See also:Berber and as obsolete as the See also:dialect of the Iguvine See also:inscriptions . In treating all these subjects he showed See also:signal ability, but, wherever the theme allowed, an incurable crotchetiness; and in his numerous metrical See also:translations from the See also:classics, especially his version of the Iliad, he betrayed an insensibility to the ridiculous which would almost have justified the irreverent criticism of See also:Matthew See also:Arnold, had this been conveyed in more seemly See also:fashion . His miscellaneous essays, some of much value, were collected in several volumes before his See also:death: his last publication, Contributions chiefly to the See also:Early History of Cardinal Newman (1891), was generally condemned as deficient in fraternal feeling . He was far from possessing his brother's subtlety of reasoning, but he impresses by a transparent sincerity and singleness of mind not always displayed by the more celebrated writer; his See also:style is too individual to be taken as a See also:model, but is admirable for its simplicity and clearness . His See also:character is vividly See also:drawn by See also:Carlyle in his See also:life of See also:Sterling, of whose son Newman was See also:guardian: " a man of See also:fine attainments, of the sharpest-cutting and most restlessly advancing See also:intellect and of the mildest pious See also:enthusiasm." It was his See also:great misfortune that this enthusiasm should have been correlated, as is not unfrequently the See also:case, with an entire in-sensibility to the humorous See also:side of things . After his retirement from University College, Professor Newman continued to live for some years in London, subsequently removing to See also:Clifton, and eventually to See also:Weston-super-See also:Mare, where he died on the 7th of See also:October 1897 . He had been See also:blind for five years before his death, but retained his faculties to the last .

He was twice married . See T . G . Sieveking, Memoir and Letters of See also:

Francis W . Newman (1909) . (R .

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