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 d. at
Llanrhaeadr
7 Aug. 1857
, and was buried at
Ruthin
.
Bibliography:
-
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
.
Author:
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, M.A., (1899-1970), Aberystwyth
