John Brockenbrough Newton (February 7, 1839 – May 28, 1897) was

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of Virginia, but he died in that post, without succeeding to the diocesan See.

Biography

Newton was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 7, 1839, the son of Willoughby Newton and Mary S. Brockenbrough. He was educated at the Episcopal High School near Alexandria, Virginia, the Edge Hill School, and Schouler's School, near Fredericksburg. He attended a Medical School in Winchester, Virginia and afterwards graduated from the Medical College of Virginia with a Doctor of Medicine in 1860. At the beginning of the American Civil War, he entered the Confederate army as a private in the

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, where he served as assistant surgeon and later as full surgeon. After the war, he continued to practice medicine until 1870, when he commenced studies for the ordained ministry. He was ordained deacon on June 25, 1871, and priest on June 29, 1872, by Bishop Francis McNeece Whittle. He served as rector of St John's Church and St Paul's Church in Tappahannock, Virginia between 1871 and 1876. Later, in 1876, he became rector of

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, while in 1884 he became rector of Monumental Church in

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. He was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Virginia on January 31, 1894, and was consecrated in Monumental Church on May 16, 1894, by Francis McNeece Whittle, Bishop of Virginia; Thomas Underwood Dudley,

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; and George William Peterkin,

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at the Diocese's 99th Annual Convention in

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on May 16, 1894.Gorham, E. S. American Church Almanac and Year Book (1921
p. 42 (Google Books preview)
(Accessed 5 January 2016) Newton was the father of historian Mary Newton Stanard, who produced a biography of him in 1924.

References

1839 births 1897 deaths Brockenbrough family of Virginia People from Westmoreland County, Virginia 19th-century Anglican bishops in the United States Episcopal bishops of Virginia {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub