John Newman (architect)

John Newman (1786–1859) was an English architect, known also as an antiquarian.

Life

The son of John Newman (of the same name), a wholesale dealer in leather in Skinner Street,

Newman retired in 1851. He died at the house of his son-in-law Alexander Spiers, at Passy near Paris, on 3 January 1859.^[1]

Architectural works

Newman designed:^[1]

• Roman Catholic church of
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster
  until 2 July 1869;
• houses in Duke Street, London Bridge, with wharves and warehouses, constructed when the line for the new bridge was prepared in 1824;
• Islington Proprietary School, Barnsbury Street, 1830;
• School for the Indigent Blind in St George's Fields, Southwark
  , 1834–8, in the Gothic style;
• St Olave's Girls' School, Maze Road, Southwark, 1839–40.

Antiquarian

Newman collected antiquities found in London and the surrounding neighbourhood. Some bronzes in his possession from the bed of the Thames were mentioned in a paper by Charles Roach Smith, read before the Society of Antiquaries of London in June 1837. Among them was the colossal bronze head of Hadrian, now in the Anglo-Roman room of the British Museum. In 1842, Smith again made use of Newman's collection when reading another paper before the society on Roman Remains recently found in London.^[1]

In 1847, Newman exhibited before the

Newman married in 1819 a daughter of the Rev. Bartholomew Middleton, sub-dean of Chichester. The architect Arthur Shean Newman (1828–1873), partner of Arthur Billing, was his son.^[1]

Notes

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Newman, John (1786-1859)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.