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He married, firstly Sophia Conyers in 1743, and secondly Hesther Margaret Munday in 1776. Both marriages were childless.

He lavished attention on the Elizabethan [[Arbury Hall]] which he rebuilt over a period of thirty years in splendid [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] Renaissance style, engaging the services of the architect [[Henry Couchman]].

He is immortalised in fiction in [[George Eliot]]'s [[Scenes of Clerical Life]], where he appears as Sir Christopher Cheverel in Mr Gilfil's Love Story.^ref

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'''Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet''' (30 May 1719 &ndash; 23 November 1806) was an [[England|English]] politician and collector of antiquities.

He was born in [[Arbury, Warwickshire|Arbury]], [[Warwickshire]], the son of [[Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet]] (who died in 1727) and inherited the title 5th [[Baronet]] and the estates of Arbury and of [[Harefield]] in [[Middlesex]] on the early death of his brother in 1734. He was educated at [[Westminster School]] and [[University College, Oxford]], and contributed greatly to the university throughout the remainder of his life. He is most remembered as the founder of the [[Newdigate Prize]] in 1805 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9098404/Newdigate-Prize |title=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Newdigate Prize |publisher=Britannica.com |date= |accessdate=2012-04-17}}</ref> and as a collector of antiques, a number of which he donated to the University. The prize for [[poetry]] helped make the names of many illustrious writers.

From 1742 until 1747, he served as [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesex]], and in 1751, he began a 30-year tenure as an MP for [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University]].

He married, firstly Sophia Conyers in 1743, and secondly Hesther Margaret Munday in 1776. Both marriages were childless.

He lavished attention on the Elizabethan [[Arbury Hall]] which he rebuilt over a period of thirty years in splendid [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] Renaissance style, engaging the services of the architect [[Henry Couchman]].

He is immortalised in fiction in [[George Eliot]]'s ''[[Scenes of Clerical Life]]'', where he appears as Sir Christopher Cheverel in ''Mr Gilfil's Love Story''.<ref>Cooke, George Willis. ''George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy''. Whitefish: Kessinger, 2004. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1xyX3SVQinQC&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=amos+barton+church&source=web&ots=43AL8LJ9H8&sig=WqBE2oYbdKZ1rfy1NXRSQkrx2hk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA242,M1]</ref>

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