NEWPORT PAGNELL  , a market town in the Buckingham parliamentary division of Buckinghamshire, England, 56 m . N.W. by N. of London, on a branch of the London & North-Western railway, and at the junction of the river Ouzel with the Ouse . Pop. of urban district (Igor) 4028 . The church of St Paul and St Peter has Early English portions, including fine north and south porches . An inscription on the tomb of Thomas Abbott Hamilton in the churchyard is by the poet Cowper, who lived in the neighbouring town of Olney (q.v.) . The almshouse called Queen Anne's Hospital is named from Anne of Denmark, queen of James I., who reconstituted a foundation of the time of Edward I., dedicated to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist .