Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet
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Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet was a Scottish scholar, royal tutor, dean of Durham and baronet.
Adam Newton's Charlton House
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Charlton House
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Charlton House is a Jacobean mansion in Charlton, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south-east London. Built between 1607 and 1612, it is widely regarded as one of the finest and best-preserved
Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet
…installed by proxy. The duties of the office must also have been done by proxy, if at all. In 1606 he acquired the manor of Charlton, Kent, where he built Charlton House. The English ambassador in Venice, Henry Wotton, sent a gift of Venetian treacle, made with balsam, to David Murray and Adam Newton. Robert Cecil, 1st…
Charlton House, London
The entrance