Andrew Newport

For the earlier MP, see Andrew Newport (died 1611).

Andrew Newport JP (30 November 1622 – 11 September 1699), styled The Honourable from 1642, was an English Tory politician, courtier and royalist.

Background

He was the second son of Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport and his wife Rachel, daughter of Sir John Leveson. His older brother was Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford. He was educated at Wroxeter and Christ Church, Oxford. Like his father and brother, Newport was an active supporter of King Charles II of England during the English Civil War. After the Penruddock uprising in 1655 and the attempt of Sir George Booth, 2nd Baronet in 1659, he was arrested each time and imprisoned.

Career

In 1660, following the English Restoration, Newport was called to the court as Esquire of the Body. From 1667, he served as Comptroller of the Great Wardrobe and was subsequently nominated a Commissioner of Customs in 1681, an office he held until 1685. Newport entered the English House of Commons in a by-election in 1661, sitting for Montgomeryshire until 1679. He was returned for Preston from 1685 until 1689 and then for Shrewsbury until 1698.

Newport was a Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire between January and December 1679. He was again appointed in 1685, until 1687 and exercised this post a third time from 1691 until his death eight years later. Newport represented the county also as Justice of the Peace and was Commissioner for Assessment of Salop and Montgomeryshire several times.

Family

Newport died unmarried and childless.

Literary Reference

He has been speculatively identified with the Andrew Newport who nominally wrote Memoirs of a Cavalier, (published 1720), a supposedly factual but possibly fictional account of experiences in the Thirty Years' War and Royalist campaigns in England by a Shropshire-born soldier. It was published by Daniel Defoe, strongly suspected to be the real author, over 20 years after the death of the Andrew son of 1st Lord Newport, who was ten years old in the year the account begins (1632).

References

Parliament of England
Preceded by Edward Vaughan	Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire 1661–1679	Succeeded by Edward Vaughan
Preceded by Sir Thomas Chicheley Edward Fleetwood	Member of Parliament for Preston 1685–1689 With: Edward Fleetwood	Succeeded by James Stanley Thomas Patten
Preceded by Edward Kynaston Sir Francis Edwardes, 2nd Bt	Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1689–1698 With: Sir Francis Edwardes, 2nd Bt 1689–1690 Richard Mytton 1690–1694 John Kynaston 1694–1698	Succeeded by Richard Mytton John Kynaston
Honorary titles
Preceded by The 3rd Lord Herbert of Chirbury	Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire Jan.–Dec. 1679	Succeeded by The 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury
Preceded by The 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury	Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire 1685–1687	Succeeded by The Marquess of Powis
	Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire 1691–1699	Succeeded by The Earl of Macclesfield