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Francis William Newman
English scholar and writer (1805–1897) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis William Newman (27 June 1805 – 4 October 1897) was an English classical scholar and moral philosopher, prolific miscellaneous writer and activist for vegetarianism and other causes.
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Born | (1805-06-27)27 June 1805 London, England |
Died | 4 October 1897(1897-10-04) (aged 92) Weston-Super-Mare, England |
Occupation(s) | Scholar, philosopher, writer, activist |
Spouses | Maria Kennaway
(m. 1835; died 1876)Eleanor Williams (m. 1878) |
Family | John Henry Newman (brother) |
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He was the younger brother of John Henry Newman. Thomas Carlyle in his life of John Sterling called him a "man of fine attainments, of the sharpest-cutting and most restlessly advancing intellect and of the mildest pious enthusiasm."[1] George Eliot called him "our blessed St. Francis" and his soul "a blessed yea".[2]