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and his wife Mary Hunt. He was educated at St. Mary Hall, where he took the degrees of M.A. and B.C.L., and Merton, where he graduated as a

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. During the reign of Queen Anne, he was sent to

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as the Envoy Extraordinary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Republic of Genoa, remaining there for nearly seven years. During his stay, he commissioned a medal by the Italian artist

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. After his return, he was made a judge of the admiralty court and master of

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. He was knighted in 1715, but died later the same year. Henry Newton had two daughters. One daughter, Mary, married Henry Rodney, and was the mother of

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, later raised to the peerage as Baron Rodney. The other daughter, Catherine, married first a Colonel Alexander, and secondly Lord Aubrey Beauclerk."The United Service Magazine"
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, Henry 1715 deaths British diplomats Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 1651 births