[1][2][3] Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.
In 1642, Newport provided King Charles I of England with the sum of £6000 in exchange for a barony, enabling him to use artillery in the Battle of Edgehill and was duly elevated to the Peerage of England as Baron Newport, of High Ercall, in the County of Salop on 14 October,[6] having been knighted at Theobalds House in Hertfordshire in 1615.
He also fortified his country house, High Ercall Hall, and made it available as a Royalist stronghold and garrison.
During the Siege of High Ercall Hall the house was severely damaged and eventually captured by Parliamentary forces in 1646.
[7] Newport died aged 63 in Moulins-en-Tonnerrois and was succeeded in the barony by his oldest son Francis.