Newdigate

Newdigate, SIR ROGER (1719-1806), was born and died at Arbury in Warwickshire, having sat for many years in parliament as member for Middlesex and the university of Oxford. He was a great antiquary, but now is chiefly remembered as the endower of the Newdigate prize poem at Oxford, winners of which have been Heber (1803), John Wilson (1806), Milman (1812), Hawker (1827), Lord Selborne (1832), Faber (1836), Stanley (1837), Ruskin (1839), Shairp (1842), M. Arnold (1843), Sir E. Arnold (1852), J. A. Symonds (1860), W. J. Conthope (1864), and W. H. Mallock (1871).