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Hubert Ernest Newnham

Hubert Ernest Newnham

Ceylonese civil servant and politician

Hubert Ernest Newnham CMG BA (Oxon) (1886–1970) was a Ceylonese civil servant and politician.[1]

Hubert Ernest Newnham was born on 1 October 1886 in Southampton, the son of Henry Sullivan Newnham.[2] He was educated at the Junior School of Monkton Combe School,[3] at Dean Close School, Gloucestershire and St John's College, Oxford.[4][5]

Newnham joined the Ceylon Civil Service in November 1909.[6][7] He also served in the Ceylon Light Infantry obtaining the rank of Captain in 1918.[8][9]

He was the Principal Collector of Customs and Chairman of the Colombo Port Commission. He also was the President of the Colonial Civil Servants’ Association.[4]

Newnham served as the Chairman of the Colombo Municipal Council from August 1924 to July 1931.[10]

In the 1937 Coronation Honours he was awarded with the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.[11]

He retired from the Civil Service in 1939 and was subsequently appointed as a member of the 2nd State Council of Ceylon on 6 March 1939, resigning the position on 18 May 1943.[12][13]

Newnham married Mary Garneys née Latter (1900-1979), they had two daughters - Elisabeth Margaret (b.1931) and Audrey Garneys (1934-2005).

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    Abeyesooriya, Samson, ed. (1920). Who's Who of Ceylon - Edition 3. Colombo: St. Gerard's Press. p. 140.
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    Monkton Combe School Register 1868-1964
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    "Distinguished Old Decanians". Dean Close School. 8 June 2017. p. 26. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
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    University of Oxford (1914). "Oxford University Calendar". J. H. Parker and H. Slatter: 462. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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    "No. 12192". The Edinburgh Gazette. 5 November 1909. p. 1158.
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    Office of Commonwealth Relations (1939). "The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List". 72. Waterlow & Sons, Limited: 783. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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    Hodgins, Glen Robert-Grant. "Status on a British Ceylonese Brigade". Sri Lanka Genealogy Website. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
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    "British Forces". International Ceylon Database. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
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    Hulugalle, H. A. J. (1965). Centenary Volume of the Colombo Municipal Council: 1865-1965. Colombo Municipal Council. p. 50.
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    "No. 34396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 May 1937. p. 3082.
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    Roberts, Michael (1977). Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950. Vol. 1. Department of National Archives.
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    Jātika Rājya Sabhāva. Pustakālaya (1972). "Members of the Legislatures of Ceylon: 1931-1972". National State Assembly Library: 108. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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