Born in Kinver, Staffordshire, he was the elder son of
Jonathan Newey, Rector of Kinver. Newey was educated at
Kinver and at
Pembroke College, Oxford (BA: 1686; MA: 1689); DD, 1729. They had two sons and four daughters: Mary (9 September 1708 – 3 January 1767) married Dr
Benjamin Hoadly (
Bishop of Winchester);
John (-20 April 1737), fellow of
Merton College, Oxford; Ann; Jane; Katherine (-12 December 1770); Samuel (-2 October 1739), educated at
Eton College and
King's College,
Cambridge. Newey died on 13 September 1735, at age 70 and is buried at
Itchen Abbas church where he is commemorated in a memorial within the church. == Career ==