Henry William Newman (27 November 1839 – 1 June 1904) was a French-born Australian politician.
He spent four years as a mining labourer at Grenfell and a stint as a newspaper reporter at Forest Reefs (near Cadia), before returning to Lucknow and purchasing the main storekeeping business there.
He was heavily involved in local organisations in Lucknow and Orange, was a generous benefactor to local causes and having himself experienced poverty, was known for paying "the highest current rate of wages" in his mines.
[1][2] In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Orange, with joint Labor and Free Trade endorsement.
Although initially sitting as a Labor member, he refused to take the pledge and by 1894 was a Free Trader.