George Newton (minister)

Newton was born in Devon, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated 17 December 1619, and proceeded B.A.

[1] During the period 1642–5, when Taunton was being contested for by parliamentarians and royalists, back and forth, Newton spent some time in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, where he preached in the abbey church.

In 1654 he was, by ordinance of the First Protectorate Parliament, appointed one of the assistants of the commissioners for ejecting scandalous ministers in Somerset.

[2] She was said to have been "bred to work" and she soon opened a boarding at Newton's house and the school was said to have twenty and sometimes thirty boarders.

[1] Newton died 12 June 1681, and was buried in the chancel of St. Mary Magdalene's Church, where there was a monument with an inscription to his memory.