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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. Copyright © Trumpington Local History Group 2023 Email TLHG Return to TLHG introduction page Name Index