John Newey


The Very Rev John Newey was an English churchman, Dean of Chichester from 1727 to 1735.

Life

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 ; DD, 1729.
He married on 29 May 1707 Ann Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler and Dorothy, Wheeler’s first wife. They had two sons and four daughters: Mary married Dr Benjamin Hoadly ; John, fellow of Merton College, Oxford; Ann; Jane; Katherine; Samuel, educated at Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge.
Newey died on 13 September 1735, at age 70 and is buried at Itchen Abbas church where he is commemorated in two memorials.

Career

Ordained: deacon by John Hough, Bishop of Oxford, 25 June 1690; priest by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, 22 May 1692.
Curate at Beckenham from 22 May 1692. Vicar at Wombourne. He resigned from this position on grounds of ill health and moved to London becoming Professor of Music at Gresham College and being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He resumed church duties becoming Rector and then Prebendary of Itchen Abbas shortly before his marriage; Rector: Avington ; Dean of Chichester.
Newey’s books were offered for sale after his death.