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John Newman (architect)
John Newman (1786–1859) was an English architect, known also as an antiquarian.
==Life==
The son of John Newman, a wholesale dealer in leather in Skinner Street, Snow Hill, and a common councillor of the ward of Farringdon Without, he was baptised at St. Sepulchre's Church, London, on 8 July 1786. he was employed under Sir Robert Smirke in the erection of Covent Garden Theatre in 1809, and on the London general post office in 1823–9.
From about 1815 Newman was one of the three surveyors in the commission of sewers for Kent and Surrey, and with the other surveyors, Joseph Gwilt, and Edward I'Anson, published a ''Report relating to the Sewage'' in 1843. He was for many years in the office of the Bridge House Estates, and eventually succeeded to the clerkship. He held several surveying appointments, including that to the commissioners of pavements and improvements for the west division of Southwark, and to Earl Somers's estate in Somers Town, London. He was honorary architect to the Royal Literary Fund from 1846, and to the Society of Patrons of the Charity Children's Anniversary Meeting in St. Paul's Cathedral.〔
Newman retired in 1851. He died at the house of his son-in-law Alexander Spiers, at Passy near Paris, on 3 January 1859.〔
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