Edward Newenham
A younger son of William Newenham, of Coolmore House, County Cork, and Dorothea, daughter and heiress of Edward Worth, he was born on 5 November 1734.
He was a man of moderate political views, but a reformer of Parliament, within the limits of the constitution, and on strictly Protestant lines.
He induced Parliament to add a clause to the Catholic Relief Bill of 1778 for the removal of nonconformist disabilities; but it was opposed by government, and struck out by the English privy council.
He met Franklin, John Jay and the Marquis de Lafayette whilst on a European Tour with his immediate family during the year of 1782.
One of his prized possessions, Belcamp Hall, had to be sold to pay for debts along with his townhouse at Granby Row off Rutland Square.
Eventually Sir Edward was held up by 4 baliff's that carried him back to Ireland, to face a £500 debt, where he had to front up that he couldn't pay it.
[1] He initially rejected the Act of Union, but at the last minute changed his mind to support it, in consequence of the rising Catholic movement.
His son, Robert O'Callaghan Newenham, was author of Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland, London, 1830, 2 vols.
Newenham is the figure to the immediate left of the Duke of Leinster, who is positioned centrally, in front of the statue of King William.