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Mr. Newmarch was a Yorkshireman, born at Thirsk, January 28, 

 1820. He took his sckooling at York, and, as a young man, held some 

 clerkly appointments in that city. He early showed his literary taste 

 and talent by publishing a Guide to the City, by frequent correspon- 

 dence with the " Sheffield Iris," and by the delivery of lectures. Having 

 served as a clerk under a stamp distributor, he passed to the York- 

 shire Eire and Life Office at York, then to the banking honse of Messrs. 

 Leatham, Few, and Co., at Wakefield. From Wakefield he moved to 

 London, and served on the staff of the Agra Bank. In 1852, he was 

 appointed Secretary of the Globe Insurance Company, and took the 

 lead in conducting the negotiations which resulted in the amalgama- 

 tion of that office with the Liverpool and London Insurance Company. 

 In 1862 he accepted the post of Manager in the banking house of 

 Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., which he did not resign till he 

 had warnings of an attack of paralysis. 



Mr. Newmarck always found the performance of his duties as an 

 official consistent with an extraordinary amount of literary activity, 

 coupled with earnest work on behalf of the many societies and public 

 bodies to which he attached himself, and of some of which he was the 

 founder. Among these we may mention the Cobden, Adam Smith, 

 and Political Economy clubs, the Institutes of Actuaries and Bankers, 

 and the Statistical Society. He was on the staff of the "Morning 

 Chronicle," an occasional contributor to the "Times" and other 

 leading papers, and a constant correspondent of the " Economist." 

 His writings, for the most part anonymous, were devoted to questions 

 of currency, banking, free trade, and the laws of industrial and com- 

 mercial progress. In the Statistical Society, to which he was always 

 warmly attached, he held in succession the offices of Honorary Secretary 

 and Editor of its Journal, President for the usual term of two years 

 (in succession to Mr. Gladstone), and Honorary Vice-President. As 

 Editor of the Journal of the Society, he planned several of its periodical 

 returns and tables, and he contributed to its pages many important 

 papers and presidential addresses. To the last he continued to take a 

 lively interest in the question of providing suitable house accommoda- 

 tion for the Statistical and cognate Societies ; and made a strenuous 

 but unsuccessful effort, by means of a company with limited liability, 

 to carry this cherished object into effect. In 1861, he presided over 

 the section of Economical Science and Statistics at the Session of the 

 British Association held at Manchester. 



One of Mr. Newmarch's series of papers, that on the New Gold 

 Supplies, contributed to the pages of the "Morning Chronicle" in 

 1853, was afterwards printed as a separate volume. But the work 

 on which his claim to permanent distinction mast rest is that in 

 which he took part with Mr. Thomas Tooke (also a Fellow of this 

 Society), namely, the " History of Prices " published in 1856, but now 



