John Newey (poet)

John Newey (c.1711-20 April 1737) was the eldest son of John Newey and Ann (née Wheeler).^[1]

He studied at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating on 27 November 1728 at the age of 18; BA (1732); MA (1736). He became a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.^[2]

Newey contributed a poem Ad Isin to a congratulatory volume of verse from the University of Oxford on the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.^[3]^[4]

Newey died on 20 April 1737, at age 26 and is buried at Itchen Abbas church where he is commemorated in two memorials.^[5] Given that Newey was 18 on 27 November 1728 and 26 on 20 April 1737, he was born between 28 November 1710 and 19 April 1711.

References[edit]

^ Ward, John (1740). The lives of the Professors of Gresham College : to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas GRESHAM. With an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, writen by the Professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives. London: for the Author; sold by W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, &c.; pr. John Moore. pp. 233–234.
^ Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxoniensis: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 : their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University alphabetically arranged, revised and annotated; vol 3: later series. Oxford: Parker. p. 1016.
^ Gratulatio Academiæ Oxoniensis in nuptias ... Frederici principis Walliæ et Augustæ principissæ de Saxo-Gotha. Oxford: e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1736.
^ Money, David The Latin poetry of gentlemen (2012). Houghton, L.B.T.; Manuwald, Gesine (eds.). Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles. London: Bristol Classical Press. p. 135.
^ Ward, John (1740). The lives of the Professors of Gresham College : to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas GRESHAM. With an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, writen by the Professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives. London: for the Author; sold by W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, &c.; pr. John Moore. pp. 233–234.

[1] Ward, John (1740). The lives of the Professors of Gresham College : to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas GRESHAM. With an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, writen by the Professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives. London: for the Author; sold by W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, &c.; pr. John Moore. pp. 233–234.

[2] Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxoniensis: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 : their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University alphabetically arranged, revised and annotated; vol 3: later series. Oxford: Parker. p. 1016.

[3] Gratulatio Academiæ Oxoniensis in nuptias ... Frederici principis Walliæ et Augustæ principissæ de Saxo-Gotha. Oxford: e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1736.

[4] Money, David The Latin poetry of gentlemen (2012). Houghton, L.B.T.; Manuwald, Gesine (eds.). Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles. London: Bristol Classical Press. p. 135.

[5] Ward, John (1740). The lives of the Professors of Gresham College : to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas GRESHAM. With an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, writen by the Professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives. London: for the Author; sold by W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, &c.; pr. John Moore. pp. 233–234.

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