Newdigate, Richard ___ 1644-1710 ___ British ___ landowner

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is a very little information about Richard Newdigate readily available on the internet. He was the son of an eminent lawyer who was made a baronet by Charles II. Although he tried to get into politics, and was elected as MP for the county of Warwick, Parliament was dissolved a week after the election. He settled down to manage his estates as Squire of Arbury, and had 15 children by his first wife, and three by a second. According to one source on the internet, he paid an unusual paternal interest in the children of his estate workers. Newdigate kept a detailed daily diary for much of his adult life, but a large part of it was lost in a fire.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - But I spied crabs

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1680-1709 ___ religious domestic farming health France

WEB TEXT LINKS
brief about
etext
about

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Warwickshire County Record Office

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Cavalier and Puritan in the Days of the Stuarts
 

December 2005, July 2008, April 2013
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.