Robert Newell
Robert Newell may refer to: * Robert Newell (VC) (1835–1858), British Army recipient of the Victoria Cross * Robert Newell (politician) (1807–1869), politician in Oregon, United States *Robert Henry Newell (1836–1901), American humorist *Robert Newell (priest) Robert Newell, D.D. was an English Anglican priest in the 17th century. Morton was educated at St John's College, Cambridge; and incorporated at Oxford in 1600. He held livings at Wormley, Cheshunt, Islip, Clothall and North Crawley. He was A ...

Robert Newell (VC)
Robert Newell VC (1835 – 11 July 1858) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Private Newell was approximately 23 years old, and a private in the 9th Lancers of the British Army when the following deed on 19 March 1857, during the Indian Mutiny at Lucknow, India led to the award of the Victoria Cross: He died four months later in India on 11 July 1858. His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ..., London. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Newell, Robert 1835 births 1858 deaths 9th Queen's Royal Lancers soldiers British recipients of the Victoria Cr ...
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Robert Newell (politician)
Robert "Doc" Newell (March 30, 1807 – November 24, 1869), was an American politician and fur trapper in the Oregon Country. He was a frontier doctor in what would become the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he served in the Provisional Government of Oregon and later was a member of the Oregon State Legislature. The Newell House Museum, his reconstructed former home on the French Prairie in Champoeg, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Early life Newell was born on March 30, 1807, in Zanesville, Ohio.Corning, Howard M. (1956) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. In 1829, Newell joined William Sublette and his group on a party to trap beaver. Others in the group included Joseph L. Meek and Jedediah Smith. He trapped fur in the region west of the Rockies in the 1830s, and married Kitty, a Nez Perce woman in 1833. During his time as a mountain man, he became so skilled at basic surgery and healing, despite not having profession ...
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Robert Henry Newell
Robert Henry Newell (December 13, 1836 – July 1901) was a 19th-century American humorist. During the U.S. Civil War, Newell wrote a series of satirical articles using the pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr, commenting on the war and contemporary society. His articles appeared weekly in the New York '' Sunday Mercury'', where he was the literary editor until 1862, and were published in a series of books. Among other newspapers he worked at, from 1869 to 1874 he wrote for the ''New York World''.(July 13, 1901Robert H. Newell Dead ''The New York Times'', Retrieved November 5, 2010 From approximately 1862 to 1865, he was married to famous actress Adah Isaacs Menken.(July 14, 1901)Robert H. Newell's Life Romance ''The New York Times'', Retrieved November 29, 2010 The name "Orpheus C. Kerr" was a play on the term "office seeker". At the time, political offices were seen as plums, involving relatively little work and regular pay, and were used by political parties as rewards for faithful p ...
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