Newman, Robert
(1858–1926)
- Michael Musgrave
Extract
Newman, Robert (1858–1926), concert manager, was born on 26 July 1858 at 121 Regent Street, London, the son of Charles Newman, a job master who had contracts to supply horses to the royal mail, and his wife, Emiline Maria, née Love. His first employment, as a stock jobber, ended in bankruptcy after two years in 1887, when he was twenty-nine. He then studied singing in ...
