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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name         = Robert Stirling (1)
| name               = Newall
| honorific_prefix   = 
| honorific_suffix   = FRS
| image              = File:Newall,_Robert_Stirling_(1).jpg
| birth_date         = 1812
| death_date         = 1889
| address            = Ferndene Gateshead
| occupation         = business
| elected_ESL        = 1870.04
| elected_ASL        = 
| elected_AI         = 1870
| elected_APS        = 
| elected_LAS        = 
| membership         = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow
| left               = 1878.10 last listed 
| clubs              = 
| societies          = Royal Society
}}
== Notes ==
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rope and cable maker
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Robert Stirling Newall FRS FRAS (27 May 1812 – 21 April 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer.<br />a Victorian industrialist  with a wide range of interests.  His company was involved in the early laying of submarine telegraph cables in which he travelled the globe extensively;he ran a chemical factory; was interested in astronomy at one time owning the largest refractor telescope in the world; was heavily involved in municipal matters, being a Town councillor, a Mayor twice, Alderman and Justice of the Peace. He also was involved on committees including the first Education Board,as Chairman, (in 1870, the year he joined the Ethnological Society) and The Newcastle Natural History Society
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS<br /><br />RELATING TO THE<br /><br />INVENTION OF THE SUBMARINE CABLE<br /><br />AND TO THE<br /><br />MANUFACTURE AND LAYING OF THE FIRST CABLE<br /><br />BETWEEN DOVER AND CALAIS IN 1851<br /><br />BY<br /><br />R.S. NEWALL<br /><br /> <br /><br />LONDON<br />E. & F. N. SPON, 16 CHARING CROSS<br />1882
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