NEWCOME, RICHARD (1779 - 1857), cleric

b. 8 March 1779 at Gresford, near Wrexham, of which his father was vicar from 1764 to 1803. Son of the Rev. Henry Newcome and Elizabeth his wife, and grand-nephew of Richard Newcome, bishop of Llandaff 1755-61 and of S. Asaph 1761-9, he was educated at Ruthin School and Queens’ College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. (1800) and M.A. (1804), was ordained deacon in Sept. 1801 by bishop Bagot and priest by bishop Horsley of S. Asaph in Sept. 1803. He was licensed to the curacy of Wrexham in March 1804, and in June of the same year became warden of Ruthin and rector of Llanfwrog. These offices he held for forty-seven years. He was also canon of Bangor (1821), and archdeacon of Merioneth (1834) (the deanery of Dyffryn Clwyd was then in the diocese of Bangor), and rector of Clocaenog (1829-34). In 1851 he retired from Ruthin and Llanfwrog and for the last six years of his life he was vicar of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch in the Vale of Clwyd. He wrote Memoirs of Dean and Bishop Goodman, 1825, and an account of the castles and towns of Ruthin and Denbigh, 1829. He died at Llanrhaeadr 7 August 1857, and was buried at Ruthin.

Author

• Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, (1899 - 1970), Aberystwyth

Sources

• H. B. Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph;
• A. Ivor Pryce, Diocese of Bangor During Three Centuries, seventeenth to nineteenth century inclusive being a digest of the registers of the bishops (1929);
• S. Asaph Ordination Papers, in N.L.W.;
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography containing many thousand concise memiors of persons who have died since the year 1850, with an index of the most interesting matter, 1897, ii, 1118;
• A. O. Evans, A Chapter in the History of the Welsh Book of Common Prayer; or, the letters which were written preparatory to the revised edition of 1841. Annotated, with biographical sketches (Bangor 1922).

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Published date: 1959

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