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John NEWSHAM 1673-1724
Biographical Note
Son of Charles Newsham of Chadshunt, Warwickshire, a member of a long-established gentry family there. Matriculated at New College, Oxford 1690, but did not graduate; admitted at the Middle Temple 1693. He was MP for Lostwithiel 1720-22. Part of the landscape park which he created at Chadshunt Hall in the 1710s remains there today.
Books
Newsham used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 21761); the extent and disposition of his library are not known.
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Chadshunt Park, Our Warwickshire.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.