14 Facts About Frank Newnes

Sir Frank Hillyard Newnes, 2nd Baronet was a British publisher, businessman and Liberal politician.

Frank Hillyard Newnes was born in Manchester, the son of George Newnes, the newspaper publisher and Liberal MP first for Newmarket and later for Swansea.

Frank Newnes's mother was Priscilla Newnes the daughter of the Reverend James Hillyard.

Frank Newnes had an older brother who died aged eight years and whose death was said to have devastated his father.

In 1913 Frank Newnes married Emmeline Augusta Louisa, the daughter of the late Sir Albert de Rutzen, who had held the office of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Bow Street.

Lena Frank Newnes became a well-known society hostess and philanthropist, raising thousands of pounds for various charitable and educational causes.

Frank Newnes was a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

On leaving university in 1897, Frank Newnes followed his father into his publishing business, eventually becoming President of George Frank Newnes Ltd.

Frank Newnes became Chairman of Country Life, Ltd and a director of other companies in the publishing trade, including The Westminster Gazette, the Liberal-supporting newspaper founded by his father.

Frank Newnes had other commercial and investment interests, and served on the boards of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society and Norwich Union Life Insurance Society.

However his father died in 1910 and Frank Newnes inherited the baronetcy.

In 1915, during World War I, Frank Newnes was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Frank Newnes was a member of the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London, a member of the management committees of the Royal Free Hospital and its Medical School and served as Chairman of the Post-Graduate Institute of Dental Surgery and of the Eastman Dental Hospital.

Frank Newnes died in Western Australia on 10 July 1955 at the age of 78 years.