Andrew Newport
Andrew Newport JP (30 November 1622 – 11 September 1699),[1] styled The Honourable from 1642, was an English Tory politician, courtier and royalist.
Background
He was the second son of Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport and his wife Rachel, daughter of Sir John Leveson.[2] His older brother was Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford.[2] He was educated at Wroxeter and Christ Church, Oxford.[3] Like his father and brother, Newport was an active supporter of King Charles II of England during the English Civil War.[3] After the Penruddock uprising in 1655 and the failed pro-Royalist military activities of Sir George Booth, 2nd Baronet in 1659, he was arrested each time and imprisoned.[3]
Career
In 1660, following the English Restoration, Newport was called to the court as Esquire of the Body.[4] From 1667 to 1681 he served as comptroller of the Great Wardrobe[4] and was subsequently nominated a Commissioner of Customs in 1681, an office he held until 1685.[5] Newport entered the English House of Commons in a by-election in 1661, sitting for Montgomeryshire until 1679.[1] He was returned for Preston from 1685 until 1689[6] and then for Shrewsbury until 1698.[7]
Newport was a Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire between January and December 1679.[8] He was again appointed in 1685, until 1687 and exercised this post a third time from 1691 until his death eight years later.[8] Newport represented the county also as Justice of the Peace and was Commissioner for Assessment of Salop and Montgomeryshire several times.[3]
Family
Newport died unmarried and childless.[2]
Literary Reference
He has been speculatively identified with the Andrew Newport who nominally wrote Memoirs of a Cavalier, (published 1720), a supposedly factual but possibly fictional account of experiences in the Thirty Years' War and Royalist campaigns in England by a Shropshire-born soldier. It was published by Daniel Defoe, strongly suspected to be the real author,[9] over 20 years after the death of this Andrew Newport, who was only ten years old in the year the account begins (1632).
References
- 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Montgomeryshire". Retrieved 23 July 2009.
- 1 2 3 Burke, John (1831). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 396.
- 1 2 3 4 Henning, Basil Duke (1983). The House of Commons, 1660-1690. vol. I. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 136–137. ISBN 0-436-19274-8.
- 1 2 "Loyola University Chicago - The Database of Court Officers 1660-1837" (PDF). Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- ↑ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. p. 497.
- ↑ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage, Preston". Retrieved 23 July 2009.
- ↑ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Shrewsbury". Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- 1 2 "Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828". Retrieved 23 July 2009.
- ↑ Dickins, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. p. 22. ISBN 0-903802-37-6.
| Parliament of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Edward Vaughan |
Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire 1661–1679 |
Succeeded by Edward Vaughan |
| Preceded by Sir Thomas Chicheley Edward Fleetwood |
Member of Parliament for Preston 1685–1689 With: Edward Fleetwood |
Succeeded by James Stanley Thomas Patten |
| Preceded by Edward Kynaston Sir Francis Edwardes, 2nd Bt |
Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1689–1698 With: Sir Francis Edwardes, 2nd Bt 1689–1690 Richard Mytton 1690–1694 John Kynaston 1694–1698 |
Succeeded by Richard Mytton John Kynaston |
| Honorary titles | ||
| Preceded by The 3rd Lord Herbert of Chirbury |
Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire Jan.–Dec. 1679 |
Succeeded by The 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury |
| Preceded by The 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury |
Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire 1685–1687 |
Succeeded by The Marquess of Powis |
| Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire 1691–1699 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Macclesfield | |