18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Susannah Margaret Arnold    
       Also known as: Margaret Newall 1
                Born: 1850                 in Warwickshire  2 (see note 1)
              Census: 1891                 in London Road, Trumpington   (see note 2)
             Resided: 1930                 in Cambridge  3
                Died: 1930                 in London  4 (see note 3)
              Father:
              Mother:
Notes 
             Husband: Hugh Frank Newall     
             Married: 1881                 in Somerset  2 (see note 4)
                Born: 21 June 1857         in County Durham  5,2,6 (see note 5)
              Census: 1891                 in London Road, Trumpington   (see note 6)
          Occupation:                      Astronomer, Professor of Astrophysics  
             Resided: 1939                 in Cambridge  6 (see note 7)
                Died: 1944                 in Cambridge  4 (see note 8)
           Education:                      Trinity College, Cambridge  7 (see note 9)
              Father:
              Mother:
          Media link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Newall
          Media desc: Wikipedia

Sources:
(1) 1891 census. 
(2) FreeBMD website. 
(3) Probate record. 
(4) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(5) Wikipedia. 
(6) 1939 Register. 
(7) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Jun 1850 Rugby 16 546
Note (2) Margaret Newall: age 40, born Rugby, with husband Hugh F Newall
Note (3) Mar 1930 Chelsea 1a 461   age 79
Note (4) Jun 1881 Hartley Wintney 2c 324
Note (5) Dec 1857 Gateshead 10a 508
Note (6) Age 33, born Gateshead.  Astronomer, with wife Margaret
Note (7) Widowed
Note (8) Mar 1944 Cambridge 3b 666   age 86
Note (9) Name: 	Hugh Frank. Newall
College: 	TRINITY
Entered: 	Michs. 1876
BORN: 	1857
Died: 	22 Feb 1944
More Information: 	Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 7, 1876. S. of Robert Stirling
[F.R.S.], of Ferndene, Gateshead-on-Tyne (and Mary dau. of Hugh Lee Pattinson,
F.R.S.). B. there [June 21], 1857. School, Rugby. Matric. Michs. 1876; B.A.
1880; M.A. 1884. Fellow, 1909-44. Hon. D.Sc., Durham. Assistant Master at
Wellington College, 1881-3. F.R.S., 1902. Assistant Demonstrator in experimental
physics, 1886-7; Demonstrator, 1887-90. Newall Observer at Cambridge, 1891-1902.
Professor of Astrophysics, 1909-28. Director of the Solar Physics Laboratory
1913-28. President, Royal Astronomical Society, 1907-9. Vice-President,
International Astronomical Union, 1925. President of the Cambridge Philosophical
Society, 1914-15. Married (1) June 21, 1881, Margaret, dau. of the Rev. C. T.
Arnold of Rugby; (2) June 1931, Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts, formerly
Mistress of Girton College. His special contribution was his astrophysical
research in connexion with the large equatorial telescope presented to the
University by his father. Died Feb. 22, 1944, at Cambridge. (Rugby Sch. Reg.;
Burke, L.G.; Who's Who; The Times, Feb. 23, 1944; Cambridge Review, Apr. 22,
1944; Obit. Notices, Royal Soc. (1944), 4, 717.

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