Andrew Newport

Andrew Newport JP (baptised 30 November 1622 – 11 September 1699), His older brother was Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford. Like his father and brother, Newport was an active supporter of King Charles II of England during the English Civil War. with his principal lands being at Deythur, near Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire.

Career In 1660, following the English Restoration, Newport was called to the court as Esquire of the Body. and was subsequently nominated a Commissioner of Customs in 1681, an office he held until 1685. Newport entered the English House of Commons in a by-election in 1661, sitting for Montgomeryshire until 1679. He was returned for Preston from 1685 until 1689 and then for Shrewsbury until 1698. Militarily, Newport held commission as Captain of a company of foot on the Portsmouth garrison from 1662 to 1673. He was again appointed in 1685, until 1687 and exercised this post a third time from 1691 until his death eight years later. at Eyton-on-Severn, Shropshire, the home of his nephew, Lord Newport, over 20 years after the death of this Andrew Newport, who was only ten years old in the year the account begins (1632). Although of age (twenty in 1642) to have served in the English Civil War, there is doubt in absence of record that Newport did and he appears in no list of royalists fined by parliament for delinquency, unlike his father and elder brother.