NEWBERY, RALPH or RAFE (fl. 1590), publisher, carried on his business as both printer and publisher in Fleet Street, a little above the Conduit. Thomas Powell the publisher had been the previous tenant of the house, and Powell had succeeded Thomas Berthelet. Newbery was made free of the Stationers' Company 21 Jan. 1560 (Register, i. 21), was warden of the Company in 1583, and again in 1590, and a master in 1598 and 1601. He gave a stock of books, and the privilege of printing, to be sold for the benefit of Christ's Hospital and Bridewell. Newbery's first book, ‘Pallengenius’ (ib. p. 127), was dated 1560, and his name appears on many of the most important publications of his day, such as ‘Hakluyt's Voyages,’ ‘Holinshed's Chronicle’ (1584), a handsome Latin Bible, in folio (by Junius Tremellius, &c.), 1593, which he published in conjunction with George Bishop and R. Barker. Among the other productions of his press may be noted ‘Ecloges, Epitaphes, and Sonattes,’ written by Barnabe Googe, 1563; Stow's ‘Annals,’ 1592 and 1601; ‘A Book of the Invention of the Art of Navigation,’ London, 1578, 4to; ‘An ancient Historie and curious Chronicle,’ London, 1578. In 1590 he printed in Greek type Chrysostom's works. No book was entered on the Stationers' registers under his name after 31 May 1603, when he received a license, together with George Bishop and Robert Barker, to issue a new edition of Thomas James's ‘Bellum Papale.’ Ralph seems to have retired from business in 1605 (cf. Arber, iii. 162, and index). John Newbery, apparently a brother, was a publisher at the sign of the Ball, in St. Paul's Churchyard, from 1594 till his death in 1603, when his widow, Joan, continued the concern for a year longer. Nathanael Newbery pursued the same occupation from 1616 to 1634, chiefly dealing in puritan tracts.
NEWBERY, THOMAS (fl. 1563), was author of ‘Dives Pragmaticus: a Booke in Englyssh Metre of the great Marchaunt Man called Dives Pragmaticus, very preaty for Children to rede: whereby they may the better and more readyer rede and wryte wares and implements in this World contayned. . . . “When thou sellest aught unto thy neighbour or byest anything of him, deceave not nor oppresse him.” Deut. 23, Leviticus 19. Imprinted at London in Aldersgate St., by Alexander Lacy, dwellyng beside the Wall, the xxv of April 1563.’ A unique copy is in the Althorp Library, now at Manchester, and it was privately reprinted in Huth's ‘Fugitive Tracts,’ 1875. It is a quarto of eight pages, especially compiled for children. It is entirely in verse, and the preface, to ‘all occupations now under the sunne,’ calls upon the men of all trades by name to come and buy of the wares of Dives Pragmaticus, to the end that the children may learn to read and write their designations, as well as their wares and implements. The names of the trades and of the wares offered are curious and interesting, shedding some side-lights on the manners and customs of the period.
The author may possibly be identical with a London publisher of the same name who issued in 1580 ‘A Briefe Homily … made to be used throughout the Diocese of Lincoln.’
Another Thomas Newbery (fl. 1656), a printer, published in 1656, at his shop, at the Three Lions, near the Exchange, ‘Rules for the Government of the Tongue,’ by E. Reyner.
[Field's Child and his Book; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), 1662.]
NEWBOLD, THOMAS JOHN (1807–1850), traveller, son of Francis Newbold, surgeon, of Macclesfield, was born there on 8 Feb. 1807, and obtained a commission as ensign in the 23rd regiment Madras light infantry under the East India Company in 1828. Arriving in India in that year, he passed a very creditable examination in Hindustani in 1830, and in Persian in 1831. From 1830 to 1835 he was quartermaster and interpreter to his regiment. Proceeding to Malacca in 1832, he became lieutenant in 1834. While in command of the port at Lingy, he seized and detained a boat which had conveyed supplies to one of the native belligerents between whom the government of Malacca desired to maintain a strict neutrality. On his prosecution by the owner, the legality of the seizure could not be maintained; but Newbold's conduct was approved by the court, and he was reimbursed his expenses. Arriving at the presidency with a detachment of his corps in August 1835, he was approved aide-de-camp to Brigadier-general E. W. Wilson, C.B., commanding the ceded districts, an appointment which he held until 1840. He was appointed deputy assistant quartermaster-general for the division in 1838, and deputy assistant adjutant-general
