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Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (
30 May 1719 –
23 November 1806) was an
English politician and collector of antiquities.
He was born in
Arbury,
Warwickshire, the son of
Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet (who died in 1727) and inherited the title 5th
Baronet and the estates of Arbury and of
Harefield in
Middlesex on the early death of his brother in 1734. He was educated at
Westminster School and
University College, Oxford, and contributed greatly to the university throughout the remainder of his life. He is most remembered as the founder of the
Newdigate Prize in 1805 and as a collector of antiques, a number of which he donated to the University. The prize for
poetry helped make the names of many illustrious writers.
From 1742 until 1747, he served as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Middlesex, and in 1751, he began a 30-year tenure as an MP for the
University of Oxford.
He married, firstly Sophia Conyers in 1743, and secondly Hesther Margaret Munday in 1776. Both marriages were childless.
He lavished attention on the Elizabethan
Arbury Hall which he rebuilt over a period of thirty years in splendid
Gothic Renaissance style, engaging the services of the architect
Henry Couchman.
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