▶Date of birth:  5 September 1806        Place of birth: Leeds, Yorkshire

▶Father:  George Newlove     Mother:

▶Spouse(s): (1) Elizabeth Sykes; (2) Lucy Helen Highton    Date(s) of marriage:  (1) 1 October 1839; (2)  22 April 1868    Place(s) of marriage:  (1) Wakefield Parish Church, Yorkshire; (2) St Giles-in-the-Fields, London

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Richard Newlove served as a clergyman in the north of England throughout his active career, retiring to Cheltenham in the early 1870s. He was born in Leeds, in 1806, the son of George Newlove. He matriculated at Clare College, Cambridge in 1831, BA 1835, MA 1838. Newlove was ordained Deacon (York) in 1835, and Priest in 1836. He was licensed Curate of Thorner, Leeds 1835-9 and after the death of the Vicar was then installed as Vicar of Thorner in 1839, and remained in the village for most of the rest of his life, until 1872.

Early on in his career, in 1838, he had been appointed to be one of the Domestic Chaplains to the Earl of Harewood, and in 1839 he married Elizabeth, daughter of solicitor Edward Sykes, of Wakefield. In 1849 his “large black whiskers” were referred to in a court case in York. After the death of his wife in 1860 he remarried, in 1862, to Lucy Helen, youngest daughter of Henry Highton, of Leicester (her brother Henry Highton was Principal of Cheltenham College). Towards the end of his time at Thorner he became (in 1863) Rural Dean of the Diocese of Ripon, and subsequently an Honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral 1869-72.

Newlove then retired, an active and popular churchman, to Cheltenham, and in 1873-4 lived at St Leonard’s (now Goldington House), Evesham Road, Pittville. He died in 1874, at the age of sixty-eight, and was buried at Cheltenham. His wealth at death was sworn at under £4,000.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Thorner, Leeds      Moved from Pittville to: (deceased)

▶Date of death:  5 October 1874      Place of death: Cheltenham

▶Date of burial:  9 October 1874       Place of burial: St Mary’s, Cheltenham

▶Notes: Morning Herald 22 January 1849       ID: 4080

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden