Newman (1759-1839) was a physician(?) and writer. He wrote ‘An Essay on the Principles and Manners of the Medical Profession; with some Occasional Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Medicines' (1783) and 'The lounger's common-place book : or, Alphabetical arrangement of miscellaneous anecdotes : a biographic, political, literary, and satirical compilation, in prose and verse' (1792).