Author: Newton, H.
Biography:
NEWTON, Hibbert (1807?-92: ancestry.co.uk)
The son of an army captain, Phillips Newton, he was born in Sicily during the British occupation; Newton gave the year as 1807 in census records. The name of his mother is not known. His family was connected to the Newton family of Ballinglen, County Wicklow; the exact relationship is not known but that family also used Hibbert as a first name. His father died in 1828. He is recorded as a scholar at Trinity College Dublin in 1826 and graduated BA in 1829. (He signed his 1867 marriage record as "Hibbert Newton M.A." but no details of that degree have been found.) He was ordained in 1847 and served as a curate in Portsea, York, and Southwark before being appointed vicar at St. Michael’s, Southwark, in 1867. He was married three times: in 1838 to Mary Elizabeth Alley in Dublin, on 17 July 1867 to Mary Sarah Isabella Newlands, and on 16 June 1880 to Esther Burnett who survived him. It is likely that he had children born in Ireland but no certain information has been located. With his second wife he had at least two sons, born 1868 and 1872. He died 27 Oct. 1892; the death record gives his address as 41 Trinity Street, Southwark. He was buried in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington; Esther died in 1926 and was buried with him. Newton left effects of £4305. His other publications include The Fall of Babylon (1864) and The Three Liberals (1865). (ancestry.co.uk 3 Sept. 2021, 28 Jan. 2025; Catalogue of Graduates; Dublin Evening Mail 25 Feb. 1828; Dublin Evening Herald 27 Dec. 1847) SR