Researching Richard Newton

Born in London, Newton published his first caricature at thirteen. His work included caricatures expressing the English prejudice of the Scots as lean and hungry opportunists. He worked for radical publisher William Holland, producing anti-slavery works among his output, as well as "rude assaults" against Napoleon and the Royal Family. Newton minded Holland's shop when Holland was imprisoned for sedition during 1793–94. His watercolour (now in the British Museum) of fashionably dressed Londoners looking at prints in Holland's shop in Oxford Street, London, gives a depiction of an 18th-century print shop, and images of many of Holland's actual prints can be recognized on the walls. In 1794, Holland published an edition of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy with twelve plates by Newton.

Newton produced nearly 300 single sheet prints of which the British Museum's collection includes more than half. M. D. George's Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum lists 98 prints by Newton.

Newton died of typhus in London at the age of 21.

He was born in Hornings Mills, Ontario in 1905, the son of Richard E. Newton and Elizabeth A. Orr. In 1940, Newton married Laura Ruth Weir. He resigned his seat in 1952 to allow Robert Bonner to be elected to the assembly. In 1963, Newton died in office at home in Invermere at the age of 57.

Newton is buried at City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell.

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 24 marine genera and species named by him.

Among his many publications:* Newton, R Bullen, On the necessity for the abandonment of the generic name Cyclostoma, with suggestions regarding others involved in this genus; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 7 (6), 1891* Newton R. B. (1891). Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons contained in other collections belonging to the Geological Department of the Museum. London, British Museum, XXVIII + 365 pp* Newton, R Bullen - Holland, Richard, On some Tertiary Foraminifera from Borneo collected by Professor Molengraaff and the late Mr. A. H. Everett, and their comparison with similar forms from Sumatra; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 3 (7), 1899* Newton, R Bullen, Eocene Shells from Nigeria; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 15 (7), 1905* Newton, R Bullen - Crick, G C: On some Jurassic Mollusca from Arabia, Annals And Magazine of Natural History 2 (8), 1908* Newton, R Bullen, On some freshwater fossils from Central South Africa; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 5 (9), 1920* Newton, R Bullen, On a marine Jurassic fauna from Central Arabia; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 7 (9), 1921