[1][2] Newton served in the British Army Rifle Corps during World War II.
[5] In 1950, he met an American, Anne St. Aubyn, at a party at his home in Pelham Place, Kensington, London.
[2] They married on 28 December 1951 at St Dominic's Church, San Francisco (her hometown), and had three children: Carol Boone of San Francisco; Gail Showley of St. Helena; and Nigel Newton of London.
[1][2] In later life, he was very proud that his granddaughter Alice, then eight, "discovered Harry Potter", after his son Nigel Newton, founder of Bloomsbury Publishing, gave her in 1997 a chapter of a new manuscript by the then unknown J. K. Rowling, already rejected by many other publishers, and she loved it.
[5] Newton died on 4 February 2008, at his St. Helena home, aged 81, and was buried there at the Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery.