Newsome, David Hay
NEWSOME, David Hay
NEWSOME, David Hay. British, b. 1929. Genres: History, Theology/ Religion, Biography. Career: Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge University, 1960-70 (Fellow, 1959-70 and Sr. Tutor, 1965-70, Emmanuel College; Birkbeck Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, 1972); Headmaster, Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, 1970-79; Master, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berks., 1980-89. Publications: A History of Wellington College 1859-1959, 1959; Godliness and Good Learning, 1961; The Parting of Friends: A Study of the Wilberforces and Henry Manning, 1966; Bishop Westcott and the Platonic Tradition, 1969; Two Classes of Men: Platonism in English Romantic Thought, 1974; On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson the Diarist, 1980 (Whitbread Prize for Biography); Edwardian Excursions from the Diaries of A. C. Benson, 1980 The Convert Cardinals: John Henry Newman and Henry Edward Manning, 1993; The Victorian World Picture, 1997. Address: The Retreat, Thornthwaite, Keswick, Cumbria, England.