NEWELL
,
EBENEZER JOSIAH
(
1853
-
1916
),
cleric, schoolmaster, and historian
;
b. in
South-wark
in
1853
, second son of
C. W.
Newell
, he went, in
1872
, to
Worcester College
,
Oxford
, and graduated in
1876
. After a period as
assistant in a school
at
Cardiff
, he was ordained in
1890
and took a
curacy
at
Neath
, where he also
kept a school
. In
1891
he
opened a school
at
Porthcawl
, acting also as
curate
of
Newton Nottage
, and further
holding evening classes
. Browsing in the library at
Nottage Court
(see the article
Knight
of
Tythegston
), he became interested in the
history of the Welsh Church
, and did good work in that field — becoming also a prominent member of the
Cambrian Archaeological Association
. Besides a volume of verse (
The Sorrow of Simona
,
1882
), he published
A Popular History of the Ancient British Church
,
1887
,
A History of the Welsh Church to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
,
1895
(a national eisteddfod prize essay),
The Diocese of Llandaff
,
1902
, and
S. Patrick, his Life and Teaching
,
1890
. At the end of
1900
, he was preferred to the
vicarage
of
Neen Sollers
,
Cleobury Mortimer
(
Salop
) and d. there at the
beginning of June
(buried
6 June) 1916
.
Bibliography:
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
Crockford's Clerical Directory
, 1858
ff
;
-
Shropshire Parish Register Society.
[Publications]
, 1900 ff
;
-
information from his son,
Rev. L. B. C. Newell
.
Author:
Archdeacon Lawrence Thomas, D.D., (1889-1960), Aberafan
