Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet [SEP] noble title
Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet
Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet (died 1630) was a Scottish scholar, royal tutor, dean of Durham and baronet.
Life.
He spent part of his early life in France, passing himself off as a priest and teaching at the college of St. Maixant in Poitou. There, for some time between 1580 and 1590, he instructed the future theologian André Rivet in Greek. After his return to Scotland he was, about 1600, appointed tutor to Prince Henry, and
Hertfordshire
- 1390 Geoffrey Michale
- 1391 Sir William Coggleshall of Codham Hall and Coggeshall, Essex (1st term)
- 1392 Adam Frances
- 1393 Thomas Coggeshall
- 1394 Thomas Sampkin
- 1395-97 William Bateman
- 1398 Sir Robert Turk of Hitchin, Hertfordshire
List of sheriffs Henry IV.
- 1399 (Aug–Sep) John Doreward of Bocking, Essex
- 1399 (Sep-Nov) Robert Tey of Marks Tey, Essex
- 1399 Edward Benstede of Bennington, Hertfordshire