John Pretyman Newman

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Pretyman Newman (22 August 1871 – 12 March 1947) was an Irish-born British Army officer and Conservative politician.

He was the eldest son of John Adam Richard Newman of Newberry Manor, Mallow, County Cork and his wife Matilda née Bramston of Llangefni, Anglesey, and was christened as John Robert Bramston Newman.

Following education at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Newman received a commission in the 5th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for County Cork. In 1898 he served as the county's high sheriff.

Newman was married twice. In 1895 he married the Hon. Olivia anne Plunket, daughter of the 4th Baron Plunkett, who died in 1896. In 1898 he wed Geraldine "Ina" Olivia Pretyman, daughter of Colonel William Pretyman of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, and he assumed the additional surname of Pretyman in place of Bramston. The couple made their home at 79 Eaton Square in the Belgravia district of London. His second wife died in October 1935.

In 1906 he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of Walthamstow as a Conservative candidate. At the next general election in January 1910 he stood at Enfield, Middlesex. The seat was considered to be a safe Liberal constituency, but Newman managed to unseat the sitting member of parliament, James Branch by 1,242 votes. A further general election was held in December of the same year, and Newman held the seat with a reduced majority of 936 votes. During the First World War Newman served with the Middlesex Regiment on the Western Front, reaching the rank of major.

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