Sir Frank Newnes, 2nd Baronet

Sir Frank Hillyard Newnes, 2nd Baronet (28 September 1876 – 10 July 1955) was a British publisher, businessman and Liberal politician.

Family and education 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. His mother was Priscilla Newnes (née Hillyard) the daughter of the Reverend James Hillyard. He had an older brother who died aged eight years and whose death was said to have devastated his father. Newnes was educated privately before attending Clare College, Cambridge where he graduated with MA and LL.B. degrees in 1897.

In 1913 Newnes married Emmeline Augusta Louisa (Lena), the daughter of the late Sir Albert de Rutzen, who had held the office of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Bow Street. Lena Newnes became a well-known society hostess and philanthropist, raising thousands of pounds for various charitable and educational causes. She was a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. She died in 1939.

Newnes married again in 1946. His second wife was Dorothy (née Darlot), the widow of Stephen Delmar-Morgan, who was originally from Perth, Western Australia. The firm was based at 17-21 Tavistock Street in premises leased from the eleventh Duke of Bedford.

Newnes also had other commercial and investment interests, and served on the boards of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society and Norwich Union Life Insurance Society. He also served as a director of City & Commercial Investment Trusts Ltd and Redeemable Securities Trust Ltd and was Chairman of Associated Weavers, Ltd and Armoride Ltd.

Politics Newnes also followed his father in his political persuasions. A sometime member of the National Liberal Council, However his father died in 1910 and Newnes inherited the baronetcy.

Death Newnes died in Western Australia on 10 July 1955 at the age of 78 years. As he had no children the Newnes baronetcy became extinct on his death.