Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

first saw Maria Kennaway at Escot." [Footnote: Escot, Ottery St. Mary,

mutual, for the engagement followed quic

80 he received his captain's commission, and in 1786 Marquis Cornwallis made him one of his aides-de-camp. I quote from New Monthly Magazine for 1836, which gave an account

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His Majesty was pleased to create him a baronet (1791), and he received a mark of still further approbation from the Court of Directors (East India Company) in a vote which they passed to take out the patent of creation at the Company's expense." Later, Sir John arranged a definite peace between the Nizam's Commissioner and the Mahrat

fficial life was over, yet busied himself in many local matters. He acted as deputy-lieutenant and as colonel-commandant of local militia and yeomanry. Then later, in advanced age, ther

had hitherto spent her girlhood in the daily service of the poor around her home. She and her sisters started village sch

a real grief to her to find that he was drifting further and further away towards agnosticism. Loving him devotedly as she did, her constant prayer was t

die in faith), for when she died in July, 1876 (devotedly nursed by her husband), she knew t

s an appropriate place,

on his wi

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rdently: that happiness is no more. But I kept my treasure ten years longer tha

he died just as her brother did, the late Sir John Kennaway, through failure of the heart and consequent mortification of the feet. I now believe that local death began on the night of the 5th. Her sufferings in the feet were great, an

anion who had lived with them for eleven years, and who took the greatest care of Newman till he died in 1897.] seems unnatural and unhealthful; but I cannot f

mean to be cheerf

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Newman had placed ov

ng down to the lowly, by unselfishness and simplicity of life, by a constant sense of God's Presence, by d

large void in he

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chequered by disputes."-R. L. Stevenson.] Still, there was not (as is shown, I think, in many ways) strong community of interests. For in all Newman's laborious philological studies-his learned lectures, articles, and researches, scriptural and literary, his speculations in the realms of deep thought-s

home missionary work among the poor villagers of her own home. She knew that he had come through great dangers in his journey to the Holy Land as a missionary. He had not then definitely cast aside his old beliefs-that was to come later; now he was on the brink of it, and he was alone on this inward, personal

for her; the inevitable next thing seemed to be to care for him. At that time his name was in everybody's mouth. Miss Frere wrote, in 1833, that "the brother o

d brought them together

o choosing in love"-once the meeting ha

ng his bride to see them. Unfortunately she fell ill, and the treatment given for her illness proved quite a mistaken one; consequently her recovery was much slower than it need otherwise have been. The journey was, bes

tol. I say advisedly, "went through the ceremony," for I believe both he and hi

me information as regards Francis Newman's work at Bristol, as also has Mr.

in Park Row, and that it had some very distinguished pupils, Sir Edward Fry, the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, [Footnote: Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge since 1849, and Fellow and President of Pembroke College, Camb

t have been in this chapel, indeed, that he was re-baptized (as I mentioned a little earlier

e Hare Leonard's letter to me): "This was not obligatory upon all, and there was a fierce attack on the college by certain of the clergy, and Bishop Gray was hostile. In 1841, under the i

ambridge, who gave me this extract from a memoir of her father.] an ac

at Bristol College, and considered that when there he owed much to the teaching of Francis Newman, brother of the Cardinal, a man of charming character and great attainments (afterwards made manif

hat Bristol College had certainly a distinguish

ly ill that he was not able to be present at his mother's funeral; and so the last time he

conspicuous one, on all about her. The trials of life had given a weight to her judgment, and her remarkable composure and serenity of temper and

me; [Footnote: As of course she did.] and she thought I was surrounded by admirers, and had everything my own way; and in consequence I, who am conscious to myself I never thought anything more precious than

s. Newman was. Once or twice she said that though "Frank was adamant" when she had wished to get closer in touch with

ad never been conversant, insensibly to herself, her manner changed when he spoke to her of how gradually the whole sco

e of the growing agnosticism of her oth

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