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Newton, William Shackfield
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1837-1912
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William Newton was born in Lancashire, studied at Cambridge and was ordained in Llandaff in 1861. He emigrated to Australia in 1871 and worked in parishes in Macleay River and Gulgong. After returning to England to work in Stanstead, Essex (1889-1890) he returned to Sydney as the headmaster of St Philip's Grammar School. He then served as curate of St Matthew's Botany (1896-1897) and minister of St James Pitt Town and St John Wilberforce with Sackville Reach (1897-1911).
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