Chief engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard
1832 Born at Newton Abbot, Devonshire
Gained his practical engineering education at the Swindon Locomotive Works
1853 Joined the Navy in 1853 as a second class assistant engineer
, anc.l bt>camo engineer in 185{}, and chief engineer in 1866. After serving with distinction aflo&t, during which pt>tiod he received a medal, he became first ~oasiatant to the chiPf engineer at Portamouth about fifteen ycara ago, and was promoted to the superintendence of the steam department or the yard in 1872. Ho died from an abscesa in tho brain, partly owing, 1t ia supposed, to tho great llhock which he IJUfTorod e.t tho explosion on board the Thundorcr in July, 1876. He waa at the time superintending the trial of the engines, and was in the not of going down tho engine-room hatch when tho boilrr burst. Mr. Newman was sent for treatment to Haslar Hospital, but on tho hopelessness of his cMc being manifest, ho w&!l brought back to his otlicial rcllidonco in tho dockyard, where l10 <.lieu. llo will bo interred with full naval honoun at Haslar to-day, tho 1'ima eaya.
1876 Edward Newman was Superintending the trial of the engines on board HMS Thunderer, at the time of the Explosion.[1]
1882 Death Announcement in The Engineer 1882/12/08, page 426. Mr. Edward Newman, R.N. the Chief Engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard, died at the age of 55. He was born at Newton Abbott.[2]