NEWTON, FREDERICK ROBERT (1841-1926), schoolmaster and Anglican minister, was born at Nailsea, Somerset, England, eldest son of Robert Newton, timber merchant and contractor, and his wife Elizabeth, née Cox. He completed his education at Neuwied, Germany, and was confirmed at Coblenz in 1857. In the Great Britain he arrived at Sydney in 1858 to look for land for his parents who intended to migrate, but his mother died that year and he was appointed assistant master at Calder House School, Newtown, by J. F. Castle. In 1870 he taught mathematics at The New School (Eaglesfield) under W. J. Stephens, but left in December to open a Church of England Grammar School at Grafton with the rector, Rev. Josiah Spencer, in 1871. Newton visited the German church there as a lay reader and addressed the congregation in their native tongue. He also visited the Richmond River where his brother Walter Stephen ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography