Francis Winton Newman [commonly known as Winton Newman; also known as F. Winton Newman] was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England on 19 April 1878 and was articled to his father, Samuel James Newman (1850-1942) in Pool, Dorset from 1894 to 1897. He worked as an assistant to Walter John Nash Millard (1854-1936); to Frank Thomas Baggallay (1855-1930); to Thomas Edward Pryce (1854-1917); and to William Henry Harrison (c.1854-1925). From 1902 to 1907 he was employed as chief assistant by Ernest Newton (1856-1922). From 1898 to 1903 he also attended the Royal Academy Schools in London. He was awarded the RA Silver Medal in 1899; the RIBA Ashpitel Prize in 1903 and the RIBA Arthur Cates Prize in 1903.
Whilst still working for Newton, Newman established his own independent architectural practice in London. From 1907 he was in partnership with Henry Victor Ashley (1872-1945) in the London-based architectural firm H.V. Ashley & Winton Newman. The practice was active until at least the early 1930s.
Newman was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1904 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1912.
Throughout his career as an architect Newman worked in London. He died on 13 May [or 17 November - sources differ] 1953. His death was registered in Reading, Berkshire. His address at the time of his death was Budds Oak, Holyport, Berkshire.
(H. V. Ashley and Winton Newman): — Council House and Art Galleries, Birmingham Corporation; bank and offices for the Comptolr National d'Escompte de Paris, 8-13, King William Street, E.C.; bank and offices, 13 and 14, Austin Friars, for the British Trade Corporation; housing schemes for St. Pancras, Watford, and Marylebone Borough Councils; out-patients' department, pathological block, nurses' home, etc., etc. Royal Free Hospital; maternity home, nurses' home, and out-patients' department, Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End; fruit and Jam factory, Worcester; laboratories, library, etc., for the London School of Medicine for Women; houses at Hampstead, Beaconsfield, Bagshot, Welwyn, and elsewhere. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
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