{{for|his son, the poet|John Newey (poet)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''John Newey''' (4 December 1664 – 13 September 1735)<ref name="RoySoc">{{cite web |last1=The Royal Society |title=Fellows Directory |url=https://royalsociety.org/fellows/fellows-directory/ |access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref> was an English churchman, Dean of Chichester<ref>"Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex 1700-1745" Chamberlain,J.S: Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 1997 {{ISBN|0-252-02308-0}}</ref> from 1727 to 1735.<ref>”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900</ref>
== Life == Born in Kinver, Staffordshire, he was the elder son of Jonathan Newey, Rector of Kinver. Newey was educated at Kinver and at Pembroke College, Oxford (BA: 1686; MA: 1689); DD, 1729.<ref name="RoySoc"/>
He married on 29 May 1707 Ann Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler and Dorothy, Wheeler's first wife.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Parish registers of Oldswinford, Worcestershire: vol2, 1693-1718 |date=1974 |publisher=Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry in conjunction with the Stourbridge Historical and Archaeological Society |location=Birmingham |page=118}}</ref> They had two sons and four daughters: Mary (9 September 1708 – 3 January 1767) married Dr Benjamin Hoadly (Bishop of Winchester); John ({{circa|1711}}-20 April 1737), fellow of Merton College, Oxford; Ann; Jane; Katherine ({{circa|1720}}-12 December 1770);<ref>{{cite web |last=Collins |first=Michael |date= |title=Annotated Church Notes |url=https://www.friendsofdroxfordchurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Droxford-church-annotated-notes-Michael-Collins.pdf |location= |publisher=Friends of Droxford Church |access-date=11 March 2026}}</ref> Samuel ({{circa|1722}}-2 October 1739), educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.<ref name="JW1740">{{cite book |last1=Ward |first1=John |title=The lives of the Professors of Gresham College : to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas GRESHAM. With an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|writen}} by the Professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives |date=1740 |publisher=for the Author; sold by W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, &c.; pr. John Moore |location=London |pages=233–234 |url=https://archive.org/details/b30450676}}</ref>
Newey died on 13 September 1735, at age 70 and is buried at Itchen Abbas church where he is commemorated in a memorial within the church.<ref name="JW1740"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/obituarypriorto147musg#page/282/mode/2up|title=Obituary prior to 1800: (as far as relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland)|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Harleian Society|editor=George John Armytage|volume=IV|page=283|date=1899|access-date=11 September 2015}}</ref>
== Career == Ordained: deacon by John Hough, Bishop of Oxford, 25 June 1690; priest by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, 22 May 1692.<ref name="database">{{cite web |title=Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 |url=http://theclergydatabase.org.uk |access-date=10 November 2018 |ref=CCEd Person ID: 1609}}</ref>
Curate at Beckenham from 22 May 1692. Vicar at Wombourne (8 June 1693 – 10 March 1696).<ref name="database"/> He resigned from this position on grounds of ill health and moved to London becoming Professor of Music at Gresham College (9 October 1696 – 1 December 1705)<ref name="JW1740"/> and being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (30 November 1696).<ref name="RoySoc"/> He resumed church duties becoming Rector and then Prebendary of Itchen Abbas (25 April 1707 – 13 September 1735) shortly before his marriage; Rector: Avington (9 April 1722 – 31 August 1726); Dean of Chichester (21 June 1728 – 13 September 1735).<ref name="database"/>
Newey's books were offered for sale after his death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whiston |first1=John |title=A catalogue of several thousand volumes; among which is the library of John Newey, … Which will be sold … on Thursday the 16th of November 1738 |date=1738 |publisher=s.l. |location=s.n.}}</ref>
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