[2] Another sister was Elizabeth Newman, who became the second wife of William Thomas Fairburn and died in childbirth in 1847.
[3] Newman received his education at the nearby Alford Grammar School and then worked in the flour milling and grain-buying business.
[1][7] Newman entered politics by being elected to the first Auckland Provincial Council for the Southern Division electorate, where he served from August 1853 to September 1855.
[15] He died on 4 January 1892 at his Remuera residence,[7] a bit over a year after sustaining serious injury from a falling signboard.
[16] Several obituaries and more modern sources say the board was a whisky advert and that he was struck down by drink,[5] but it was more probably advertising biscuits.