Education
He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland.
He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland.
Previously he was a scientist at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Newhook was born in Auckland on 16 November 1918. In World World War II he was a Major in the 2nd NZEF in the Middle East and Italy. He is now deceased. Newhook published extensively on fungal pathogens, especially Phytophthora, and wrote over 90 scientific papers and other publications.
Newhook was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by the University of London c.1982, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1984 Queen"s Birthday Honours.
As the collector of the holotype collection, the fungi Dichomitus newhookii is named after him. In 2004, Landcare Research named one of its Auckland laboratories the FJ Newhook Microbiology Laboratory in his honour.