Stephen Newton

He worked as headmaster of Loudon House School in London for some years from 1888, and died following an operation in 1916 in Ipswich.

He attended Victoria College, Jersey, where he played in the school cricket team for seven summers, from 1866 to 1872, and topped the batting averages in five of those years (1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1872).

A report in the Cambridge Independent Press concluded that very few of the players competing showed promise, and that they would "be surprised if more than two will be awarded their Blues".

[6][7] He was awarded his cricketing Blue,[2] scoring seven runs at number ten during a nine wicket Cambridge victory over Oxford University.

[1] The county cricket club had only been formally set-up the previous year, and was seeking first-class status.

[9][10] During these pre-first-class seasons, Newton made a name for himself, and in his official history of the club, Peter Roebuck describes him as one of the talents of the side.

[16] Team-mate Bill Roe described Newton as a useful batsman who favoured playing balls on his pads.

[1] He was the county's top run-scorer in 1877, accumulating 285 runs at an average of 25.90, and he was also one of their principle bowlers, collecting 21 wickets during the season.

[17] He remained near the top of the batting charts for the club the following year, scoring the second-most runs behind Edward Sainsbury, 146 at an average of 18.25.

[6][10] In his first match as a first-class cricket captain, he top-scored in both innings, with 57 and 67, as Somerset lost to MCC by one wicket.

[31] His batting average for the season was almost half that of the previous year, and despite playing two additional innings he scored two less half-centuries than in 1882.

[7] From the 1885 season, all of Newton's first-class appearances were made for either Middlesex or the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in St John's Wood, London.

[6] Playing for the side against Lancashire, Newton made his highest total in first-class cricket, scoring 86 in the second-innings of the match.