Francis William Newman
Francis William Newman (27 June 1805 – 4 October 1897) was an English classical scholar and moral philosopher, prolific miscellaneous writer and activist for vegetarianism and other causes.
Francis William Newman | |
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Francis William Newman by J. Banks | |
| Born | 27 June 1805 London, England |
| Died | 4 October 1897 (aged 92) Weston-Super-Mare, England |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, philosopher, writer, activist |
| Spouses | Maria Kennaway
(m. 1835; died 1876)Eleanor Williams (m. 1878) |
| Family | John Henry Newman (brother) |
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He was the younger brother of John Henry Newman. Thomas Carlyle in his life of John Sterling called him a "man of fine attainments, of the sharpest-cutting and most restlessly advancing intellect and of the mildest pious enthusiasm." George Eliot called him "our blessed St. Francis" and his soul "a blessed yea".
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