Robert Stirling (1) Newall

Robert Stirling (1) Newall FRS
Born	1812
Died	1889
Residence	Ferndene Gateshead
Occupation	business
Society Membership membership ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow left 1878.10 last listed elected_ESL 1870.04 elected_AI 1870 societies Royal Society

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rope and cable maker

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Robert Stirling Newall FRS FRAS (27 May 1812 – 21 April 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer.
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

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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS

RELATING TO THE

INVENTION OF THE SUBMARINE CABLE

AND TO THE

MANUFACTURE AND LAYING OF THE FIRST CABLE

BETWEEN DOVER AND CALAIS IN 1851

BY

R.S. NEWALL



LONDON
E. & F. N. SPON, 16 CHARING CROSS
1882