Thomas Newton (poet)
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Thomas Newton was an English
physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator.
, which he left in 1562 to study at Queen's College, Cambridge, but then returned to his original college.
In 1569 or 1570, he published The Worthye Booke of Old Age. The book's preface was dated "frome Butleye the seuenth of March 1569", and many of his other books before 1583 were dated from the same place. He wrote books on historical, medical and theological subjects, and contributed many commendatory verses in English and Latin to various works, a common practice of the time. For many of his verses and books he styles himself "Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius", showing an evident affection for his county of birth.
He may have practiced as a physician in Butley and taught at Macclesfield school. In 1583 he was appointed rector of Little Ilford, Essex, from where most of his later works are dated. His last published work appeared in 1596, according to the 1894 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, although The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature states that Atropoion Delion; or, The Death of Delia, appeared in 1603.
According to The Dictionary of National Biography:
Newton was married and the father of two sons, Emanuel (who seems to have died before his father) and Abel. After his death in 1607 (sometime between April 27, when his will was dated, and June 13, when it was proved at Canterbury), he was probably buried at Little Ilford.
England
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physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator.
Life
The eldest son of Edward Newton of Park House, in Butley, a part of the parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, he was educated first at the Macclesfield grammar school by John Brownsword, a much-praised schoolmaster. Newton went on to Trinity College, OxfordTrinity College, Oxford
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, which he left in 1562 to study at Queen's College, Cambridge, but then returned to his original college.
In 1569 or 1570, he published The Worthye Booke of Old Age. The book's preface was dated "frome Butleye the seuenth of March 1569", and many of his other books before 1583 were dated from the same place. He wrote books on historical, medical and theological subjects, and contributed many commendatory verses in English and Latin to various works, a common practice of the time. For many of his verses and books he styles himself "Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius", showing an evident affection for his county of birth.
He may have practiced as a physician in Butley and taught at Macclesfield school. In 1583 he was appointed rector of Little Ilford, Essex, from where most of his later works are dated. His last published work appeared in 1596, according to the 1894 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, although The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature states that Atropoion Delion; or, The Death of Delia, appeared in 1603.
According to The Dictionary of National Biography:
- "Newton was a skilled writer of Latin verse, in which, Ritson states, he excited the admiration of his contemporaries; while Warton describes him as the elegant Latin encomiast and the first Englishman who wrote Latin elegiacs with classical clearness and terseness. He also wrote English verses with ease and fluency, and translated several works from the Latin. All his books are now very scarce; most of them have very long titles."
Newton was married and the father of two sons, Emanuel (who seems to have died before his father) and Abel. After his death in 1607 (sometime between April 27, when his will was dated, and June 13, when it was proved at Canterbury), he was probably buried at Little Ilford.
Verses published in other works
Newton's poetry in English and Latin appear in more than 20 works from 1578 to 1597, including these:- 15761576 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology...
: Blandie's translation of Osorius's Discourse of Ciuill and Christian Nobilitie - 15771577 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Breton:** The Works of a Young Wit** A Flourish upon Fancy...
: Batman's Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes - 15781578 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Blenerhasset, The Seconde Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates * Thomas Proctor, editor, A Gorgious Gallery, of Gallant Inventions, including contributions by Proctor,...
: Hunnis's Hive of Hunnye - 15791579 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:*Thomas Churchyard, A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders, including two poems Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or...
: Munday's Mirror of Mutabilitie - 15791579 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:*Thomas Churchyard, A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders, including two poems Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or...
: Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence - 15871587 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse...
: Mirror for Magistrates - 15871587 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse...
: a metrical epilogue to Heywood's Workes - 15891589 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1588 -Great Britain:...
: Ives's Instructions for the Warres - 15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
: Ripley's Compound of Alchymy - 15951595 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588* Barnabe Barnes,...
: Tymme's Briefe Description of Hierus lem