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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Newport, Francis

​NEWPORT, FRANCIS, Earl of Bradford (1619–1708), eldest son of Sir Richard Newport, baron Newport [q. v.], by Rachel, daughter of Sir John Leveson of Halling, Kent, was baptised at Wroxeter, 12 March 1618–19. Andrew Newport [q. v.] was his ​younger brother. He was admitted a member of Gray's Inn, 12 Aug. 1633, and of the Inner Temple in November 1634, and matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, 18 Nov. 1635.
Newport represented Shrewsbury in the Short parliament of 1640, and was returned for the same place to the Long parliament, in which he incurred great odium by voting against the attainder of Strafford, 21 April 1641. In January 1643–4 he joined the king at Oxford, and on 3 July 1644 was taken prisoner by Sir Thomas Myddelton on the raising of the siege of Oswestry. He remained in confinement until March 1647–8, when he was released on compounding for his delinquency. He became, in 1651, on his father's death, second Lord Newport. By warrant of 9 June 1655 he was committed to the Tower on suspicion of complicity in the late royalist plot. On his release he re-engaged in intrigues, and was again arrested in 1656–7. He was hatching a plot for the seizure of Shrewsbury Castle when Monck declared for the king (January 1659–60). Immediately on the Restoration he was made lord-lieutenant of Shropshire, and in May 1666 had a grant of Shrewsbury Castle and demesne. In 1668 Charles made him comptroller of the household, and in 1672 treasurer of the household, when he was sworn of the privy council (1 July). On 11 March 1674–5, he was created Viscount Newport of Bradford in Shropshire. Being adverse to arbitrary government, he was not sworn on the remodelling of the privy council in 1679, and on the accession of James II he lost his offices. He was restored to the treasurership of the household and the lord-lieutenancy of Shropshire by William III, who also created him Earl of Bradford in Shropshire on 11 May 1694. He died at Richmond House, Twickenham, in September 1708. Newport married in April 1642 Lady Diana Russell, daughter of Francis, earl of Bedford, by whom he had issue, with some daughters, Richard (1645–1723), his successor, M.P. for Shropshire 1670–81 and 1689–98; and Thomas (1655–1719), M.P. for Ludlow 1695–1700, and Wenlock 1715, who was created, 25 June 1715, Baron Torrington.
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Newmarket, Adam de

​NEWMARKET, ADAM de (fl. 1220), justiciar, was son of Robert de Newmarket, and a member of a Yorkshire family. The first English baron of the name is Bernard of Neufmarché or Newmarch [see Bernard, fl. 1093], who settled in Herefordshire soon after the Conquest, and left no recognised male off-spring. An Adam de Newmarket occurs as a benefactor of Nostel priory in the reign of Henry I, and a William de Newmarket under Henry II and Richard I. Their relationship to the justiciar seems obscure.
Adam de Newmarket served with John in Ireland in 1210. As a northern lord he was perhaps an adherent of the baronial party, and in 1213 fell under suspicion, and was imprisoned at Corfe Castle. He had to give his sons, John and Adam, as hostages, but on 18 Oct. 1213 they were released and delivered to their father (Cal. Rot. Pat. p. 105). In 1215 Newmarket was one of the justiciars appointed to hold an assize of Mort d'Ancestor in Yorkshire (Cal. Rot. Claus. i. 203). He was justice itinerant for Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire in 1219–20. A letter from him and his colleagues on the case of William, earl of Albemarle, is printed in Shirley's ‘Royal and Historical Letters’ (i. 20). Newmarket was again justice itinerant for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 1225; for these counties and for Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford in 1232; and for Yorkshire and Northumberland in 1234. He was employed in the collection of the fifteenth in Yorkshire in 1226. The date of his death is uncertain, but it was previous to 1247, for in that year his grandson, Adam, son of John de Newmarket, did livery for his lands (Excerpt. e Rot. Finium, ii. 19). The elder Adam de Newmarket had a brother Roger (Cal. Rot. Claus. i. 278).
Adam de Newmarket (fl. 1265), baronial leader, the grandson of the above, must have been born in or before 1226. He was summoned for the Scottish war in 1256, and for the Welsh war in 1257. He sided with the baronial party, and in December 1263 was one of their representatives at Amiens (cf. letters, ap. Rishanger, pp. 121, 122, Camden Soc.) Newmarket was taken prisoner by the king at Northampton on 5 April 1264, and his lands seized. After the battle of Lewes he no doubt regained his freedom and lands, and in June was appointed warden of Lincoln Castle. Newmarket was summoned by the barons to parliament in December 1264. When war broke out again in 1265 he was serving with the younger Simon de Montfort, and was taken prisoner by Edward, the king's son, at Kenilworth, on 2 Aug. He made his peace with the king, under the ‘Dictum de Kenilworth,’ in 1266. Newmarket married a daughter of Roger de Mowbray. Neither his son Henry nor his grandson, Roger de Newmarket, was summoned to parliament. Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, was a descendant.
[Annales Monastici; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 435; Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, p. 401; Nicolas's Historic Peerage, ed. Courthope; Foss's Judges of England, ii. 431.]
C. L. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Newport, Andrew

​NEWPORT, ANDREW (1623–1699), royalist, was second son of Sir Richard Newport, knight, of High Ercall, Shropshire, first baron Newport [q. v.], and younger brother of Francis Newport, first earl of Bradford [q. v.] He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 3 July 1640 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). His father and elder brother were both active royalists, and High Ercall was one of the garrisons held longest for the king in Shropshire; but it is doubtful whether Andrew Newport took part in the civil war. His name does not appear in any list of persons fined for delinquency (Cal. of Compounders, p. 924; Vicars, Burning Bush, p. 403). His real services to the royalist cause began under the protectorate, and from 1657 he acted as treasurer for money collected among the English cavaliers for the king's service (Cal. Clarendon Papers, iii. 263, 340, 359). He belonged to the energetic and sanguine section of younger royalists headed by John Mordaunt, who opposed the cautious policy recommended by the ‘Sealed Knot.’ Charles, in his instructions to Mordaunt on 11 March 1659, writes: ‘I desire that Andrew Newport, upon whose affection and ability to serve me I do very much depend, and know he will act in any commission he shall be desired, may be put in mind to do all he can for the possessing Shrewsbury at the time which shall be appointed.’ Newport accordingly played a very active part in preparing the unsuccessful rising of July 1659 (Clarendon Papers, iii. 427, 469, 492, 534). After the Restoration he became one of the commissioners of the customs, and in 1662 was captain of a foot company at Portsmouth (Dalton, Army Lists and Commission Registers, i. 30). He sat for the county of Montgomery in the parliament of 1661–78, for Preston in that of 1685, and for Shrewsbury from 1689 to 1698. He died on 11 Sept. 1699, and was buried in the chancel of Wroxeter Church, Shropshire. A portrait of Newport attributed to Kneller is at Weston.
In the preface to the second edition of Defoe's ‘Memoirs of a Cavalier’ (printed at Leeds) the publisher identifies Newport as their author. Another edition, published in 1792, is boldly entitled ‘Memoirs of Colonel Andrew Newport.’ There is no warrant for this identification in the statements of the preface to the 1720 edition, and the account given of his own services in Germany and in the civil war by the hero of the memoirs is incompatible with the facts of Newport's life. An examination of the contents of the memoirs shows conclusively that it is a work of fiction. The question is discussed in Lee's ‘Life and Newly Discovered Writings of Daniel Defoe,’ i. 329, and Wilson's ‘Life of Defoe,’ iii. 500. The former considers it to be mainly a genuine work.
C. H. F.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Newman, Thomas (fl.1578-1593)

​NEWMAN, THOMAS (fl. 1578–1593), stationer, son of John Newman, clothworker, of Newbury, Berkshire, was apprenticed to Ralph Newbury for eight years from Michaelmas 1578 (Arber, Transcript of the Registers, ii. 87). He was made free of the Stationers' Company 25 Aug. 1586 (ib. ii. 698), and began business the following year. He published with Thomas Gubbin; the first entry to him was on 18 Sept. 1587 (ib. p. 475). In 1591 he brought out two impressions of the first edition of Sir P. Sidney's ‘Astrophel and Stella.’ The first and very faulty issue supplied an introductory epistle by Thomas Nash [q. v.] Samuel Daniel complained that Newman had improperly included twenty-eight poems of his in the volume (Collier, Bibliogr. Account, 1865, i. 34–7). Newman's name is only to be found on about a dozen books. The last entry in the ‘Registers’ to him was on 30 June 1593 (Arber, Transcript, ii. 633).
H. R. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Inglethorp, Thomas

1904 Errata appended.
​INGLETHORP or INGOLDSTHORP, THOMAS, D.D. (d. 1291), bishop of Rochester, appears to have belonged to a family of some note, taking its name from Ingoldesthorp in Norfolk. The first benefice he is known to have held is that of Pagham in Sussex. He held the prebendal stall of Stoke Newington in St. Paul's Cathedral, and became archdeacon of Middlesex, from which dignity he was raised to the deanery of St. Paul's in 1276-7. He also held the archdeaconry of Sudbury in August 1267 (Le Neve, Fasti, ii. 490). In 1278, as dean of St. Paul's, he gave his consent to the erection of the new church of the Black Friars between Ludgate and the river Fleet, on their removal from their original home in what is now Lincoln's Inn (Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 38). Inglethorp was appointed by Edward I to the see of Rochester in succession to John de Bradfield (d. 23 April 1283). The commencement of his episcopate was troubled by disputes with the prior and monks of the convent as to some of the rights and perquisites of the see. Though these rights had been enforced by Inglethorp's predecessors, the monks asserted that the bishop had no just claim. The matter was referred to the archbishop, who made a personal visitation and decided against the bishop. The subsequent relations between the bishop and the convent were happy, and at his death the monastic chronicler, Edmund of Haddenham, summed up his character as
Vir laudabilis, mitis et affabilis,
Jocundus et hilaris, et mensa dapsilis,
who 'deserved to have his place with the blessed ones' (Anglia Sacra, i. 353). The numerous mentions of Inglethorp in Thorpe's 'Registrum Roffense' chiefly detail his dealings with the property of the see. In 1284 he was commissioned by the archbishop to reconcile the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, and that of Maidstone, after their pollution by the effusion of blood (Reg. Roffense, p.102; Annal. Monast. Dunstaple, iii. 314). A dispute having arisen between him and the abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, he excommunicated the abbot, a sentence which the king desired him to withdraw (ib. pp. 106-7). He exchanged the advowson of St. Buryans in Cornwall with Edmund, earl of Cornwall, for those of Henley and Mixbury in Oxfordshire and Brundish in Suffolk (ib. p. 200). In 1389 he carried out the 'ordinatio' of the college and chantry founded in the church of Cobham in Kent (ib. pp. 234-9). He died 12 May 1291, and was buried on the south side of the high altar of his cathedral, where his altar-tomb still remains with a mitred recumbent effigy.
E. V.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Inglis, Charles (1734-1816)

The biographical details of his early life are different in later editions.
​INGLIS, CHARLES (1734–1816), bishop of Nova Scotia, was born, apparently, in New York, in 1734. From 1755 to 1758 be conducted a free school at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and gained the goodwill of the ​neighbours, who recommended him to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He came to England, was ordained by the Bishop of London, and, returning to America, began work on the Dover mission station, which then included the county of Kent, Delaware, 1 July 1759. In 1765 he became assistant to Dr. Auchnutz, at Holy Trinity Church, New York, and catechist to the negroes. While there he took part in the controversy on the subject of the American episcopacy, advocating its foundation in a pamphlet, and being a member of the voluntary convocation which met 21 May 1766. In conjunction with Sir William Johnson he actively assisted in evangelical work among the Mohawk Indians. The university of Oxford created him by diploma M.A. 6 April 1770, and D.D. 25 Feb. 1778 (Foster, Alumni Oxon. p. 728). In 1776, when Washington obtained possession of New York, Inglis, as a loyalist, retired to Long Island for a time, but Dr. Auchnutz died 4 March 1777, and Inglis was chosen to succeed him in the benefice of Holy Trinity. The church had just been burnt down, and Inglis was inducted by Governor Tryon among the ruins. His loyalty to the English crown rendered him obnoxious to the new American government. His property was taken from him, and he appeared in the Act of Attainder of 1779. He resigned his living 1 Nov. 1783, and visited England. On 12 Aug. 1787 he was consecrated first bishop of Nova Scotia, thus becoming the first British colonial bishop; he proceeded to his diocese, and in 1809 was made a member of the council of Nova Scotia. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1816. Inglis married Margaret Crooke, daughter of John Crooke of Ulster county, New York, and by her had two daughters and a son, John, who became in 1825 third bishop of Nova Scotia, died in London in 1850, and was the father of Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis [q. v.] Inglis published a few pamphlets.
[Sabine's Loyalists of American Revolution, i. 563–5; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. vi. 151, 516, vii. 263, ix. 527, 2nd. ser. 461, 4th ser. viii. 87; Mag. of American Hist. ii. 59; Nichols's Lit. Illustr. vii. 488; Perry's Hist. of the Amer. Episc. Ch. i. 242, &c., ii. 50n. &c.; Windsor's Hist. of Amer. vi. 270, 608; Anderson's Hist. of the Colonial Church, i. 420, iii. 435, 602–7, 716; Documentary Hist. of New York, vols. iii. and iv.]
W. A. J. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Inglis, Charles (1731?-1791)

​INGLIS, CHARLES (1731–1791), rear-admiral, a younger son of Sir John Inglis of Cramond, bart., entered the navy in 1745 on board the Ludlow Castle, with Captain George Brydges (afterwards Lord) Rodney [q. v.] He followed Rodney to the Eagle, and in that ship was present in Hawke's action with L'Étenduère on 14 Oct. 1747. After three years in the Eagle he was appointed to the Tavistock with Captain Francis Holburne. He passed his examination on 5 Feb. 1755, being then, according to his certificate, more than twenty-three years of age, and the next day he was promoted to be lieutenant of the Monarch, with Captain Abraham North. In April 1756 he was appointed to the Magnanime, with Captain Wittawronge Taylor; turned over, with him, to the Royal William on 3 June 1757 [cf. Howe, Richard Earl], and a fortnight later was promoted to the command of the Escort sloop, attached to the expedition to Rochefort under Sir Edward (afterwards Lord) Hawke [q. v.] In June 1759 he was appointed to the Carcass bomb, part of the force under Rodney which bombarded Havre and destroyed the flat-bottomed boats there in July. On l5 Dec. 1761 he was posted to the Newark of 80 guns, which early in the following year went out to the Mediterranean with the broad pennant of Commodore Sir Peircy Brett. He returned to England after the peace, and on the occasion of the Spanish armament in 1770 was appointed to command the Lizard frigate. In August 1778 he commissioned the Salisbury of 50 guns, in which he went over to Jamaica, and on 12 Dec. 1779 captured the San Carlos, a Spanish privateer of 50 guns, and laden with military stores, in the Bay of Honduras. In the following summer he returned to England, and when the Salisbury was paid off was appointed to the 64-gun ship St. Albans, one of the fleet under Vice-admiral Darby at the relief of Gibraltar in March 1781. Towards the end of the year he was sent out to the [West Indies]] in charge of convoy, and having joined the flag of Sir Samuel (afterwards Viscount) Hood [q. v.] at Barbados, was with him during his attempt to relieve St. Kitts, 25 Jan. 1782. Afterwards, in the battle of 12 April, the St. Albans was the second ship astern of the Formidable, and passed through the enemy's line closely following her and the Namur. In August 1782 the St. Albans went to North America with Admiral Pigot, and returned to England after the peace. Inglis had no further service, but was promoted to be rear-admiral on 21 Sept. 1790, and died on 10 Oct. 1791.
His son Charles, first lieutenant of the Penelope in her remarkable engagement with the Guillaume Tell [see Blackwood, Sir Henry], was immediately promoted to command the Petrel, and in her led the fleet under Lord Keith into the harbour of Marmorice, during a violent gale, on 1 Jan. 1801 (Parson, Nelsonian Reminiscences, p. 80). He was advanced to post rank on 29 April 1802, and died, still a captain, on 27 Feb. 1833.
[Charnock's Biog. Nav. vi. 455; Commission and Warrant Books in Public Record Office.]
J. K. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Inglis, Henry David

​INGLIS, HENRY DAVID (1795–1835), traveller and miscellaneous writer, the only son of a Scottish advocate, was born at Edinburgh in 1795, and was educated for commercial life; but he found work in an office uncongenial, turned to literature, and travelled abroad. Under the nom de guerre of Derwent Conway, he published his first work, ‘Tales of the Ardennes,’ 1825. It met with a favourable reception, and there followed in quick succession ‘Narrative of a Journey through Norway, part of Sweden, and the Islands and States of Denmark,’ 1826, ‘Solitary Walks through many Lands,’ 1828, and ‘A Tour through Switzerland and the South of France and the Pyrenees,’ 1830 and 1831. For a short time before 1830 he edited a local newspaper at Chesterfield in Derbyshire, but soon relinquished it for further foreign travel. Of his journeys through Spain and the Tyrol in 1830 and following years, he published valuable accounts, ‘Spain in 1830’ appearing in 1831, and ‘The Tyrol, with a Glance at Bavaria,’ in 1833. The former is his best work. In 1832 Inglis wrote a novel, in three volumes, entitled ‘The New Gil Blas, or Pedro of Pennaflor,’ 1832, delineating social life in Spain, but this effort, though not without merit, was a failure. In the same year he went to the Channel islands, and edited a Jersey newspaper, called ‘The British Critic,’ for two years. He published in 1834 a description, in two volumes, of the Channel islands. The same year he published, after an Irish tour, ‘Ireland in 1834,’ which attracted attention, was quoted as an authority by speakers in parliament in 1835, and reached a fifth edition in 1838. Subsequently Inglis settled in London, and in 1837 contributed to ‘Colburn's New Monthly Magazine,’ his last literary work, ‘Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote,’ with illustrations by George Cruikshank. He died of disease of the brain, the result of overwork, at his residence in Bayham Terrace, Regent's Park, on Friday, 20 March 1835. All his books are agreeably written, and supply serviceable information.
[Athenæum, 28 March 1835; Chambers's Biog. Dict. of Eminent Scotsmen, ii. 336; Gent. Mag. September 1835; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
W. C. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Inglis, James

​INGLIS, JAMES (d. 1531), abbot of Culross, was clerk of the closet to James IV in 1511, when he received, according to the ‘Treasurer's Accounts,’ his livery and the instalment of his annual salary of 40l. He seems to have had the confidence of the king, who thanks him in one of his letters (Epistolæ Regum Scotorum) for an offer of certain rare books on alchemy. He became chaplain to Prince ​James (afterwards James V), to whom Sir David Lyndsay was usher, and in 1515 was secretary to Queen Margaret. He was also entrusted with money for the purchase of clothes, &c., for the young prince and his brother. In 1515 Inglis was in England on the queen's business (cf. his letters in the Cottonian MSS.) Like Lyndsay, he had a share in providing dramatic entertainments for royalty, and in 1526 received money, ‘be the king's precept,’ to purchase stage apparel (cf. Treasury Records). In 1527 he is described in a charter as chancellor of the Royal Chapel of Stirling, and in the same year was ‘master of werk,’ at an annual salary of 40l., superintending the erection of buildings for the king (cf. ib.). About the same time he was appointed abbot of Culross. On 1 March 1531, for a reason unknown, he was murdered by his neighbour, John Blacater, baron of Tulliallan, and a priest named William Lothian. Summary vengeance followed on 28 Aug., when ‘John Blacater of Tullyalloune and William Louthian (publicly degraded from his orders in the Kingis presence the preceding day), being convicted by an assize of art and part of the cruel slaughter of James Inglis, abbot of Culross, were beheaded’ (Pitcairn, Criminal Trials, i. *151).
Sir David Lyndsay, in stanza v. of the prologue to ‘The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo,’ regrets the repression of Inglis's poetic gift owing to his holding ecclesiastical preferment:—
Quho can say more than Schir James Inglis sayis, In ballattis, farses, and in plesand playis? Bot Culrose hes his pen maid impotent.
His writings are lost, although the Maitland MS. credits him with a vigorous onslaught on the clergy entitled ‘A General Satyre,’ which, however, the Bannatyne MS., with distinct plausibility, assigns to Dunbar. Mackenzie's rash assumption, in his ‘Writers of the Scots Nation,’ that Inglis wrote the ‘Complaynt of Scotland’ (which was not printed till 1549), has unnecessarily complicated the question regarding the authorship of that work. Another ecclesiastic named Inglis figures in the ‘Treasurer's Accounts’ of 1532 as singing ‘for the kingis saule at Banakburne,’ and if an Inglis wrote the ‘Complaynt,’ this may have been the man. Robert Wedderburn, however, is the most likely author (see LAING, Dunbar).
[Lesley's De Rebus Gestis Scotorum; Pinkerton's Hist. of Scotland, vol. ii.; Dunbar's Poems, ed. Laing, ii. 390, and Laing's preface to The Gude and Godlie Ballates; Chambers's Eminent Scotsmen; Irving's Hist. of Scotish Poetry.]
T. B.