Background
Born in London, he accompanied at age five his father Colonel Bingham Newland to Sicily, where he remained for seven years.
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Henry Newland
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In 1823 Newland matriculated at Christ"s College, Cambridge, but then migrated to Corpus Christi College, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1827 and Master of Arts
Career
In 1816 he was sent to school at Lausanne, Switzerland, to learn French. At the end of that year he returned to England. in 1830. After being ordained priest in 1829, he was, in September that year, presented to the sinecure rectory of Westbourne, West Sussex, and also held curacies in the diocese of Chichester, until January 1834, when he became vicar of Westbourne.
At Street John the Baptist"s Church, Westbourne, Newland established a daily choral service, and preached Tractarian doctrines.
In the autumn of 1855 he moved to the vicarage of Street Marychurch with Coffinswell, near Torquay in Devon, where Henry Phillpotts the bishop of Exeter appointed him his domestic chaplain. Phillpotts, not a Tractarian, approved of the movement.
Newland died unmarried at Saint Marychurch, Devon on 25 June 1860.
