  thumb|newman's name on the lower section of the reformers memorial, kensal green cemetery francis william newman (27 june 1805 â 7 october 1897), the younger brother of cardinal newman, was an english scholar and miscellaneous writer. ==life== born in london, newman and his brother were both educated at ealing, and subsequently at oxford, where he had a distinguished career, obtaining a double first class in 1826.1911 encyclopedia he was elected fellow of balliol in the same year. conscientious scruples respecting the ceremony of infant baptism led him to resign his fellowship in 1830, and he went to baghdad as assistant in the faith mission of anthony norris groves. in 1833 he returned to england to procure additional support for the mission, but rumours of unsoundness in his views on the doctrine of eternal punishment had preceded him, and finding himself generally looked upon with suspicion, he gave up the vocation of missionary to become classical tutor in an unsectarian college at bristol. his letters written home during the period of his mission were collected and published in 1856. newman's views matured rapidly, and in 1840 he became professor of latin in manchester new college, the celebrated unitarian seminary long established at york, and the parent of manchester college, oxford. in 1846 he quit this appointment to become professor in university college, london, where he remained until 1869. during all this period he was assiduously carrying on his studies in mathematics and oriental languages, but wrote little until 1847, when he published anonymously a history of the hebrew monarchy, intended to introduce the results of german investigation in this department of biblical criticism. in 1849 appeared the soul, her sorrows and aspirations, and in 1850, phases of faith, or passages from the history of my creed, the former a tender but searching analysis of the relations of the spirit of man with the creator; the latter a religious autobiography detailing the author's passage from calvinism to pure theism. it is on these two books that professor newman's celebrity will principally rest, as in them his intense earnestness has kept him free from the eccentricity which marred most of his other writings, excepting his contributions to mathematical research and oriental philology. newman's work covered many spheres: he wrote on logic, political economy, english reforms, austrian politics, roman history, diet, grammar, the most abstruse departme
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