Henry Newland

Born in London on 19 March 1805, Henry Garrett Newland spent part of his childhood in Sicily with his father and later studied in Lausanne before returning to England. He went on to Cambridge, graduating from Corpus Christi College, and was ordained as a priest in 1829.

Newland served at Westbourne in Sussex, where he became known for daily choral services and for preaching ideas associated with the Tractarian movement. In 1855 he moved to St Marychurch near Torquay, where the bishop of Exeter appointed him as a domestic chaplain. He died there, unmarried, on 25 June 1860.

His writing ranged from sermons, lectures, and devotional works to more varied books such as The Erne, its Legends and its Fly-fishing and Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden. That mix helps explain his appeal today: alongside church writing, he left books that reflect observation, travel, and an eye for landscape.