Background
He was born in Arbury, Warwickshire, the son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet (who died in 1727) and inherited the title 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and of Harefield in Middlesex on the early death of his brother in 1734.
He was born in Arbury, Warwickshire, the son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet (who died in 1727) and inherited the title 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and of Harefield in Middlesex on the early death of his brother in 1734.
He was educated at Westminster School and University College, Oxford, and contributed greatly to the university throughout the remainder of his life.
The prize for poetry helped make the names of many illustrious writers. Both marriages were childless. He lavished attention on the Elizabethan Arbury Hall which he rebuilt over a period of thirty years in splendid Gothic Renaissance style, engaging the services of the architect Henry Couchman.
He is immortalised in fiction in George Eliot"s Scenes of Clerical Life, where he appears as Sir Christopher Cheverel in Mr Gilfil"s Love Story.
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From 1742 until 1747, he served as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Middlesex, and in 1751, he began a 30-year tenure as an Member of Parliament for Oxford University.