William Newmarch (28 January 182023 March 1882) was an

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and

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Life

Born at

Thirsk Thirsk is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England known for its racecourse; quirky yarnbomber displays, and depiction as local author James Herriot's fictional Darrowby. History Archeological fin ...

, Yorkshire, Newmarch went to school in

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; as a young man, he held posts as a clerk there. A clerk for a stamp distributor, he moved on to the Yorkshire Fire and Life Office, and then to the banking house Leatham, Few, and Co., in

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(1843–1846). He then moved to

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and worked for three financial institutions: * the

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(1846–1851) * secretary to the Globe Insurance Company (1851–1862) * chief officer in the banking-house of Glyn, Mills & Co. (1862–1881) Newmarch took an active part in the

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, of which he was one of the honorary secretaries, editor of its journal, and President (1869–1871), and the Political Economy Club. He was also elected a fellow of the

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. Newmarch died at

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on 23 March 1882 and was buried at

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Works

In early life Newmarch published a ''Guide'' to York, undertook correspondence in the '' Sheffield Iris'', and gave lectures. He contributed articles to magazines and newspapers. His knowledge of banking was displayed before the select parliamentary committee on the Bank Acts in 1857. Newmarch collaborated with

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in the two final volumes of his ''History of Prices'' and was responsible for most of the work in them. For 19 years he wrote a survey of the commercial history of the year in ''

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''.

Legacy

After Newmarch's death, friends founded a Newmarch Lectureship in economic science and statistics at

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, and

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were amongst the lecturers.

References

Obituaries

"The Death of Mr. William Newmarch, F.R.S."

Journal of the Statistical Society of London The ''Journal of the Royal Statistical Society'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of statistics. It comprises three series and is published by Wiley for the Royal Statistical Society. History The Statistical Society of London was founded ...

, Vol. 45, No. 1. (March 1882), pp. 115–121. *Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
Vol. 34. (1882–1883)
pp. xvii–xix.

Discussion

There is a section on Newmarch in: *Paul J. FitzPatrick "Leading British Statisticians of the Nineteenth Century," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 55, No. 289. (March 1960), pp. 38–70. Reprinted in Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II Edited by M G Kendall and R L Plackett, London 1977.

External links

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Royal Society citation
There is more information about Newmarch in the following AIM25 library record
NEWMARCH, William (1820–1882): papers
Newmarch is placed among the classical economists in the opening (and sample) chapter of the following

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