NEWARK 



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NEWBOLT 



Newark. Mun. bor. and mar- 

 ket town of Nottinghamshire, Eng- 

 land. It is on the Devon, near its 



union with the 



Trent, and is con- 

 nected with the 

 main course of 

 that river by a 

 short canal. It is 

 19 m. from Not- 

 tingham and 120 

 from London, 

 with stations on 

 the Mid. and G.N. 



Newark arms 



Rlys. The chief building is the 

 church of S. Mary Magdalene. 

 There is a grammar school dating 

 from 1529, town hall, corn exchange, 

 hospital, and free library. The 

 Beaumond Cross is a fine piece of 

 15th century work. 



Newark, Nottinghamshire. Ruins of the gatehouse and 

 walls of the historic castle in which King John died 



Frith 



Newark is the centre of a large 

 agricultural district, and holds an 

 important corn market. The in- 

 dustries include, the making of 

 machinery and plaster, iron and 

 brass founding, brewing and malt- 

 ing, while gypsum and limestone 

 are worked in the neighbourhood. 

 Annual fairs are held. The castle, 

 built in Anglo-Saxon times, and 

 rebuilt in the 12th century, was 

 the scene of John's death in 121G. 

 It was held for the king during the 

 Civil War until it surrendered to 

 the Scots in 1646. Then demolished, 

 the remains include the Norman 

 gatehouse and a tower. In 1549 

 Newark was made a chartered town, 

 and from 1673 to 1885 it was separ- 

 ately represented in Parliament. 

 Market day, Wed.Pop. (1921)16,957 



Newark. City and port of entry 

 of New Jersey, U.S.A., the metro- 

 polis of the state and the co. seat of 

 Essex co. It stands on the Passaic 

 river, 9 m. by rly. W. of New York, 

 and is served by the Pennsylvania 

 and other rlys., also by electric 

 rlys. to towns in the neighbour- 

 hood, and by steamers. Among 

 the public buildings are the city 

 hall, county court house, and 

 Roman Catholic cathedral. ^} 



An important industrial city, 

 Newark has manufactures of jewel- 

 ry, leather, chemicals, cutlery, 



brass and iron products, boots and 

 shoes, clothing, and glass. Origin- 

 ally known as Milford, it was settled 

 in 1666 by a colony from Connecti- 

 cut, and became a citv in 1836. 

 Pop. 414,500. 



Newark. City of Ohio, U.S.A., 

 the co. seat of Licking co. It stands 

 on the Licking river, 32 m. E. of 

 Columbus, and is served by the 

 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and 

 St. Louis and other rlys., and by the 

 Ohio Canal. Its chief manufactures 

 are glass, cigars, boots and shoes, 

 electric cars, machinery, engines, 

 flour, and chemicals. The Balti- 

 more and Ohio Rly. has works here. 

 Settled in 1801, Newark was in- 

 corporated in 1813. Pop. 26,700. 

 Newark, LORD. Courtesy title 

 borne by the eldest son of Earl 



, , Manvers. In 1796 



Charles Meadows, 

 heir of the last duke 

 of Kingston, was 

 made Baron Pierre- 

 pont and Viscount 

 Newark, and later 

 he was created Earl 

 Manvers. From 

 1661 to 1790 there 

 was a Scottish title 

 of Lord Newark. 

 This was bestowed 

 upon the soldier, 

 David Leslie, and 

 became extinct in 

 1790. See Leslie, 

 David ; Manvers, Earl. 



Newark Series. Geological 

 name for the Triassic system in 

 the E. part of N. America. The 

 rocks consist of isolated areas of 

 red sandstones, conglomerates, and 

 breccias. In N. Carolina and Vir- 

 ginia the series contains coal seams, 

 while the sandstone of Connecticut 

 and New Jersey is a valuable 

 building stone. 



Newbattle. Parish and village, 

 Edinburghshire, Scotland. It is on 

 the South Esk river, 1 m. S. of 

 Dalkeith. Newbattle Abbey, a seat 

 of the marquess of Lothian, occu- 

 pies the site of a Cistercian abbey, 

 founded in 1140 by King David I. 

 Pop. 6,100. 



New Bedford. City and port of 

 entry of Massachusetts, U.S.A., the 

 co. seat of Bristol co. It stands on 

 the Acushnet river, whose mouth 

 expands into a commodious har- 

 bour, 55 m. S. of Boston, and is 

 served by the New York, New 

 Haven, and Hartford Rly., and by 

 a series of steamers. New Bedford 

 is an important cotton centre, and 

 other manufactures are silk, cut 

 glass, machine-shop and foundry 

 products. Its once famous whale 

 fishery is now almost extinct. New 

 Bedford was incorporated in 1812, 

 and became a city in 1847. Pop. 

 121,200. 



Sir Henry Newbolt, 

 British writer 



Newbery, JOHN (1713-67)- 

 British publisher. Son of a 

 Berkshire farmer, he became 

 part proprietor of The Reading 

 Mercury in 1737. In 1740 he set up 

 a publishing business, which he 

 moved to London in 1744, issuing 

 The Universal Chronicle or Weekly 

 Gazette in 1758, and The Public 

 Ledger in 1760. Johnson, Gold- 

 smith, Smollett, Christopher Smart, 

 and Dr. Dodd wrote for him, and 

 he is described in Goldsmith's The 

 Vicar of Wakefield. Newbery, who 

 made a feature of children's books, 

 including Giles Gingerbread and 

 Goody Two Shoes, was also a patent 

 medicine vendor. He died Dec. 22, 

 1767. See A Bookseller of the Last 

 Century, C. Welsh, 1885. 



Newbolt, SIR HENRY JOHN (b. 

 1862). British writer. Born June 

 6, 1862, son of the Rev. H. F. 

 Newbolt, he 

 was educated 

 at Clifton Col- 

 lege and Cor- 

 pus Christi 

 College, Ox- 

 ford. In 1892 

 he pub lished 

 a novel, Taken 

 from the 

 Enemy, and in 

 1897 a slender 

 volume of 



verse, Admirals All. The poems 

 therein and his later verse, con- 

 tained in The Island Race, deal 

 mainly with the deeds of British 

 seamen, an example being the popu- 

 lar Drake's Drum. From 1900-4 

 Newbolt edited The Monthly Re- 

 view. His later work includes two 

 novels, The Old Country, 1906, and 

 The New June, 1909; while after 

 the war came Submarine and Anti- 

 Submarine, 1918, and A Naval His- 

 tory of the War, 1920. In 1915 he 

 was knighted, and made C.H.,1922. 

 Newbolt, WILLIAM CHARLES 

 EDMUND (b. 1844). British divine. 

 Born at Somerton, Somerset, Aug. 

 14, 1844, the 

 son of the Rev. 

 W. R. New- 

 bolt, the vicar 

 there, he was 

 educated at 

 Uppingham 

 and Pembroke 

 College, Ox- 

 ford. Having 

 been ordained, 

 he served as 

 curate of Wan- 

 tage before becoming, in 1870, 

 vicar of Dymock. In 1 887, having 

 been for a year vicar of Malvern 

 Link, he was appointed principal 

 of Ely Theological College, and in 

 1890 canon residentiary of S. Paul's. 

 He has written several volumes, in- 

 cluding Years that are Past, 1921. 



Canon Newbolt, 

 British divine 



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