Robert Newlyn (1597–1688) was an English clergyman and academic. He was president of

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, from 1640 to 1648, was expelled by the

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, and returned as president in 1660.

Life

He was born in Priors Dean,

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.Fowler, p. 194-5. He matriculated at Oxford in 1614 and graduated B.A. at Corpus Christi, in 1616, M.A. in 1620. He became a Fellow of his college in 1622. He was B.D. in 1628, and D.D. in 1640. He became rector of

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in 1643. In 1659 he married Jane, daughter of Daniel Collins and William Dring. They had no children, but his second presidency was noted for the conspicuous nepotism Newlyn applied to admissions and college posts. He was rector of

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, Wiltshire from 1660.

References

*Thomas Fowler (1893), ''The History of Corpus Christi College''

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Newlyn, Robert 1597 births 1688 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Presidents of Corpus Christi College, Oxford