Background
Born at Wellow, Hampshire, he was son of Peter Newcome (1684–1744), rector of Shenley, Hertfordshire, and grandson of Peter Newcome (1656–1738).
Born at Wellow, Hampshire, he was son of Peter Newcome (1684–1744), rector of Shenley, Hertfordshire, and grandson of Peter Newcome (1656–1738).
He was educated at Newcome"s School in Hackney, entered Queens" College, Cambridge on 7 November 1743, and graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1750.
Newcome was instituted rector of Shenley, on his own petition, on 23 December 1752, was collated to a prebend at Llandaff Cathedral on 15 March 1757, and to a prebend at Street Asaph Cathedral on 4 May 1764. In 1786 Sir Gilbert Heathcote gave him the rectory of Pitsea, Essex. Newcome died unmarried in his sister"s house at Hadley, near Barnet, Middlesex, on 2 April 1797.