Newman, Francis William 1805-97
English scholar

Born in London, he obtained a double first at Worcester College, Oxford in 1826, and was elected to a fellowship at Balliol College. After losing sympathy with Anglicanism, he withdrew from the university in 1830, declining subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles. He went as an unsectarian missionary to Baghdad (1830-33), then returned to England, becoming Classical tutor at Bristol College in 1834, professor at Manchester New College (1840) and Professor of Latin at University College London (1846-69). In religion he took a position directly opposite to his brother's, being eager for a belief system including whatever is best in all the historical religions. Phases of Faith (1853), the best known of his works, was preceded by The Soul (1849). His other works include a History of the Hebrew Monarchy (1847), and a small book on his brother, John Henry Newman (1891).