John Newey (4 December 1664 – 13 September 1735) [1] was an English churchman, Dean of Chichester [2] from 1727 to 1735. [3]
Born in Kinver, Staffordshire, he was the elder son of Jonathan Newey, Rector of Kinver. Newey was educated at Kinver and at Pembroke College, Oxford (BA: 1686; MA: 1689); DD, 1729. [1]
He married on 29 May 1707 Ann Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler and Dorothy, Wheeler's first wife. [4] They had two sons and four daughters: Mary (9 September 1708 – 3 January 1767) married Dr Benjamin Hoadly ( Bishop of Winchester); John (c1711-20 April 1737), fellow of Merton College, Oxford; Ann; Jane; Katherine; Samuel (c1722-2 October 1739), educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. [5]
Newey died on 13 September 1735, at age 70 and is buried at Itchen Abbas church where he is commemorated in two memorials. [5] [6]
Ordained: deacon by John Hough, Bishop of Oxford, 25 June 1690; priest by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, 22 May 1692. [7]
Curate at Beckenham from 22 May 1692. Vicar at Wombourne (8 June 1693 – 10 March 1696). [7] He resigned from this position on grounds of ill health and moved to London becoming Professor of Music at Gresham College (9 October 1696 – 1 December 1705) [5] and being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (30 November 1696). [1] He resumed church duties becoming Rector and then Prebendary of Itchen Abbas (25 April 1707 – 13 September 1735) shortly before his marriage; Rector: Avington (9 April 1722 – 31 August 1726); Dean of Chichester (21 June 1728 – 13 September 1735). [7]
Newey's books were offered for sale after his death. [8]