Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth

Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth MA DL JP[1](11 January 1825 - 4 October 1891) was a British Peer and the son of Newton Fellowes, 4th Earl of Portsmouth and Lady Catharine Fortescue.[2]


The Earl of Portsmouth

"Horseflesh", the 5th Earl of Portsmouth, caricature by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1 July 1876.
Tenure9 January 1864 – 10 October 1891
PredecessorNewton Fellowes, 4th Earl of Portsmouth
SuccessorNewton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth
BornIsaac Newton Fellowes
(1825-01-11)11 January 1825
Died4 October 1891(1891-10-04) (aged 66)
NationalityBritish
ResidenceFarleigh Wallop
Eggesford
Spouse(s)Lady Eveline Alicia Juliana Herbert (d. 1906)
Issue
Lady Dorothea Hester Bluett Wallop
Lady Gwendolen Margaret Wallop
Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth John Fellowes Wallop, 7th Earl of Portsmouth
Oliver Henry Wallop, 8th Earl of Portsmouth
Hon. Robert Gerard Valoynes Wallop
Rev. Hon. Arthur George Edward Wallop
Hon. Frederick Henry Arthur Wallop
ParentsNewton Fellowes, 4th Earl of Portsmouth
Lady Catharine Fortescue

Early life

Portsmouth was born as Isaac Newton Fellowes, but later resumed the family surname and arms of Wallop without Royal Licence when he succeeded to the peerage in 1854.[2][3] He was the son of Newton Fellowes, 4th Earl of Portsmouth and Lady Catharine Fortescue, daughter of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue.

He was educated at Rugby School and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]

The Newton Papers

In 1872 Lord Portsmouth donated to his alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge, a vast collection of papers by Sir Isaac Newton which had descended through Newton's great-niece Catherine Conduitt, daughter of John Conduitt and Catherine Barton, into the Wallop family by her marriage to John Wallop, Viscount Lymington.[5][6]

A committee chaired by John Couch Adams and Sir George Stokes was appointed by the University to review the papers. Adams and Stokes selected only Newton's scientific papers, not wanting to blemish his reputation as an enlightened intellectual and scientist. After spending sixteen years cataloging Newton's papers, Cambridge University kept a small number and returned the rest to the Earl of Portsmouth.[7]

Marriage and issue

He married Lady Eveline Alicia Juliana Herbert, daughter of Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, by his wife Henrietta Anna Howard, daughter of Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard (yr. brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk) on 15 February 1855.[2][3] They had twelve children:

Honours

Lord Portsmouth declined the elevation to a Marquessate and the offer to become a Knight of the Garter from Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, thinking them 'beyond his merits'.[8]

Death

He died on 4 October 1891 aged 66 and was succeeded in the Earldom by his son, Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth.[3]

Notes

  1. Malchow, Howard LeRoy (2018). Agitators and Promoters in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli: A Biographical Dictionary of the Leaders of British Pressure Groups Founded Between 1865 and 1886. Routledge. ISBN 9781351057363. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  2. "Person Page - 20556". The Peerage. Daryll Lundy. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  3. "Portsmouth, Earl of (GB, 1743)". Cracroft's Peerage. Patrick Cracroft-Brennan. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  4. Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's peerage, baronetage and knightage (107th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3192. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  5. "JOURNEY OF NEWTON'S PAPERS". gizra.github.io. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  6. Ducheyne, Steffen. "Review of Sarah Dry's 'The Newton Papers. The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts', Historia mathematica, vol. 43 (2016), pp. 342-5". Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  7. Kean, Sam. "Newton, The Last Magician". National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  8. McWilliam, Candia (2011). What to Look for in Winter. London: Random House. p. 195. ISBN 9781446499085.
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Newton Fellowes
Earl of Portsmouth
1854–1891
Succeeded by
Newton Wallop
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