biography
| name: |
Newdigate, Sir Roger
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pronunciation:
[nyoodigayt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1719–1806)
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| biography:
| Antiquary, born in Arbury, Warwickshire, C England, UK. He was MP for Middlesex (1741–77) and Oxford University (1750–80). He built up a famous collection of antiquities, and endowed the Newdigate Prize for English verse at Oxford, winners of which have included John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Laurence Binyon, and John Buchan. |
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