Editing Roger Newdigate

{{Short description|English politician}}
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| name = Sir Roger Newdigate
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt}}
| image = Sir Roger Newdigate in the Library at Arbury Arthur Devis.jpg
| caption =''Sir Roger Newdigate in the Library at Arbury'' by [[Arthur Devis (1712-1787)|Arthur Devis]]
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| constituency_MP1 = [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University]]
| majority1 =
| predecessor1 = [[Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury|Henry Hyde]]
| successor1 = [[Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet|William Dolben]]
| term_start1 = 1751
| term_end1 = 1780
| constituency_MP2 = [[Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesex]]
| majority2 =
| predecessor2 = [[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath|William Pulteney]]
| successor2 = [[Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 1st Baronet|William Beauchamp-Proctor]]
| term_start2 = 1742
| term_end2 = 1747
| birth_name = Roger Newdigate
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1719|05|30}}
| birth_place = [[Arbury]], [[Warwickshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age |1806|11|23|1719|05|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Arbury]], [[Warwickshire]], England
| nationality = British
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* {{marriage|[[Edward Conyers|Sophia Conyers]]|31 May 1743|9 July 1774|end=died}}
* {{marriage|Hester Mundy|3 June 1776|1800|end=died}}
}}
| party =[[Tories (British political party)|Tory]]
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| residence = [[Arbury Hall]]
| alma_mater = [[University College, Oxford]]
| occupation =
| profession = [[Politician]], [[architect]]
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'''Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet''' (30 May 1719 – 23 November 1806) was an [[England|English]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons]] between  1742 and 1780. He was a collector of antiquities.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Newdigate, Sir Roger}}</ref>

==Early life==
Newdigate was born in [[Arbury, Warwickshire|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 Hall|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]], where he [[matriculation|matriculated]] in 1736, and graduated M.A. in 1738;<ref name=ALUM>{{alox2|title=Newdigate, (Sir) Roger (Bart.)}}</ref> he contributed greatly to the university throughout the remainder of his life. He is best remembered as the founder of the [[Newdigate Prize]] on his death<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9098404/Newdigate-Prize |title=Encyclopædia Britannica, Newdigate Prize |publisher=Britannica.com |date= |accessdate=2012-04-17}}</ref> 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.

==Political career==
From 1742 until 1747, he served as [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesex]], and in 1751, he began a 30-year tenure as an MP for [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University]].<ref name = HOP>{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/newdigate-sir-roger-1719-1806| title= NEWDIGATE, Sir Roger, 5th Bt. (1719–1806), of Arbury, Warws. and Harefield, Mdx..| publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 3 December 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Arbury Hall Morris edited.jpg|thumb|Arbury Hall c. 1880]]
He lavished attention on the Elizabethan [[Arbury Hall]] which he rebuilt over a period of thirty years in splendid [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] Renaissance style, engaging the services of the architect [[Henry Couchman]].

==Private life==
He married, firstly Sophia Conyers in 1743, and secondly Hesther Margaret Munday in 1776. Both marriages were childless and on his death in 1806 the baronetcy became extinct. Arbury Hall and Harefield passed to Francis Parker (1774–1862) of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, a distant cousin of the 5th Baronet, who then adopted the additional name of Newdigate. Francis Parker moved into Arbury Hall and married Lady Barbara Maria Legge, daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, in 1820.

==Legacy==
Sir Roger was immortalised in fiction in [[George Eliot]]'s ''[[Scenes of Clerical Life]]'', where he appears as Sir Christopher Cheverel in ''Mr Gilfil's Love Story''.<ref>Cooke, George Willis. ''George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy''. Whitefish: Kessinger, 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1xyX3SVQinQC&pg=PA239]</ref>

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 | years = 1742–[[1747 British general election|1747]]
 | with  = [[Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland|Sir Hugh Smithson, Bt]]
 | before=[[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath|William Pulteney]]<br />[[Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland|Sir Hugh Smithson, Bt]]
 | after=[[Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland|Sir Hugh Smithson, Bt]]<br />[[Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 1st Baronet|Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, Bt]]
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 | title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University]]
 | years = 1751–[[1780 British general election|1780]]
 | with  = [[Peregrine Palmer]] 1751–1762
 | with2 = [[Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet|Sir Walter Bagot, Bt]] 1762–1768
 | with3 = [[Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet|Sir William Dolben, Bt]] 1768
 | with4 = [[Francis Page (died 1803)|Francis Page]] 1768–1780
 | before= [[Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon|Viscount Cornbury]]<br />[[Peregrine Palmer]]
 | after = [[Francis Page (died 1803)|Francis Page]]<br />[[Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet|Sir William Dolben, Bt]]
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