George Lewis Newnham-Collingwood formerly Newnham, Issue. 4th son. Venn: Newnham [post Newnham-Collingwood], George Lewes (or Lewis). College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1800 Born: 1782 Died: 1837 Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Jan. 11, 1799. [4th s. of Thomas, Esq., of London. B. 1782. School, Harrow.] Matric. Michs. 1800; B.A. 1803. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 17, 1802. Called to the Bar, Nov. 24, 1807. Married, May 30, 1810, Sarah, dau. of Admiral Lord Collingwood. Assumed the additional surname of Collingwood, June 11, 1819. Author, Life and Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood; Alfred the Great (a poem). Died July 4, 1837, aged 55, at Moor House, Hawkhurst, Kent. Brother of Nathaniel (1791), and of William (1804). (Harrow Sch. Reg.; Scott, MSS.; Inns of Court; G. Mag., 1838, I. 108 (Lewis).)
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