Charles Thomas Newton (b. c. 1816 d. 1894)

Archaeologist. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford; BA, 1837; MA, 1840. Assistant in the department of antiquities, British Museum, 1840–52. Led excavations in Greece and Turkey while serving in various consular posts from 1853. Keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities, British Museum, 1861–85. Professor of classical archaeology, University College, London, 1880–8. Knighted, 1887.