Background
The son of Francis Newbold, a surgeon of Macclesfield, he was born there on 8 February 1807.
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Thomas Newbold
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He obtained a commission as ensign in the 23rd regiment Madras light infantry under the East India Company in 1828. Arriving in India in that year, he passed an examination in Hindustani in 1830, and in Persian in 1831. From 1830 to 1835 Newbold was quartermaster and interpreter to his regiment.
Moved to Malacca in 1832, he became lieutenant in 1834.
While in command of the port at Lingy, he detained a boat supplying a belligerent, in a conflict in relation to which government of Malacca desired to maintain a strict neutrality. On his prosecution by the owner, the legality of the seizure could not be maintained.
But Newbold"s conduct was approved by the court, and he was reimbursed his expenses. Arriving at the presidency with a detachment of his corps in August 1835, he was approved aide-de-camp to Brigadier-general East. West. Wilson, C.B., commanding the ceded districts, an appointment which he held until 1840.
He was appointed deputy assistant quartermaster-general for the division in 1838, and deputy assistant adjutant-general and postmaster to the field force in the ceded districts in Newbold left India on leave of absence early in 1840, and visited Jebel Nákas ("Bell Mountain"), a tourist attraction in the Sinai peninsula in June of that year.
Newbold was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 January 1842. He was promoted to the rank of captain on 12 April, and was recalled to India in May. Arriving at Madras, he was appointed assistant to the commission at Kurnool, and also to command the horse.
He was assistant to the agent to the governor of Fort Saint George at Kurnool and Bunganahilly from 1843 to 1848, when he was appointed assistant to the resident at Hyderabad.
He was permitted to go to Egypt for two years in June 1845. He died at Mahabuleshwar on 29 May 1850.
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He was elected a member of the Asiatic Society on 5 June 1841, and during a residence of some months in England read several papers before the society.
