William Newton was an English

England

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 politician.

He was the son of Samuel (or James) Newton, a well-to-do St Kitts plantation owner from Stowey, Somerset, and was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford. He settled in Suffolk in 1813 after his father purchased Elveden Hall

Elveden Hall

Elveden Hall is a large privately owned house overlooking the large Elveden Estate in Elveden, Suffolk, England. It is located centrally to the village and is close to the A11 and the Parish Church....

, near Thetford from the 4th Earl of Albemarle.

He was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Ipswich

Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1818 to 1820.

He was married 13 December 1811 in Ferry Fryston

Ferry Fryston

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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. His wife Elizabeth (or Eliza) was the daughter of Richard Slater Milnes, MP for the city of York

City of York (UK Parliament constituency)

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. William and Eliza had ten children; their fifth son Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...

 became a famous ornithologist, their sixth, Edward Newton

Edward Newton

Sir Edward Newton KCMG was a British colonial administrator and ornithologist.He was born at Elveden Hall, Suffolk the sixth and youngest son of William Newton, MP. He was the brother of ornithologist Alfred Newton....

, a colonial administrator.

On his death in 1862 Elveden Hall was sold to the Maharajah Duleep Singh

Duleep Singh

This article is about Maharaja Dalip Singh. For other uses, see Dalip SinghMaharaja Dalip Singh, GCSI , commonly called Duleep Singh and later in life nicknamed the Black Prince of Perthshire, was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire...

.