Sir Roger Newdigate, fifth baronet

(1719-1806)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Newdigate, Roger, Sir, 1719-1806 NRA: Newdigate Sir Roger (1719-1806) 5th Baronet MP and antiquary DNB: Newdigate, Sir Roger, fifth baronet (1719–1806), politician and architect LBT ID: RoNewdi1806 VIAF ID: 30346050 LOC ID: n96099307	B/BAP: 1719-05-20 DIED: 1806-11-23
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Educated at Westminster School and University College, Oxford, he was a high churchman, Tory MP, proponent of Gothic architecture, and donor of the Newdigate prize at Oxford.
REFERENCES TO Sir Roger Newdigate, fifth baronet: Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 31