Background
He was born at Nantes to Robert William Newman and Adelaide Heseltine.
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Henry Newman
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The family migrated to Sydney in 1841 and he attended Sydney Grammar School. He briefly studied law and went to the gold rush without success before working as a labourer in Grenfell.
Career
He later owned a number of mines. In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Orange, with joint Labor and Free Trade endorsement. Although initially sitting as a Labor member, he refused to take the pledge and by 1894 was a Free Trader.
He held the seat until his death in 1904 at Lucknow.
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Nationality
France