Vanessa Newman (unknown kinship, maybe his wife or a daughter); mother Ada Lilian Rose
autodidact
South Africa
firm Newman’s Birds, installed in 1967 ; McLachlan, Geoffrey R[oy] (1923-2005) & Richard Liversidge (1926-2003): K.N. (ed.) Birds of South Africa (Cape Town: Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund for all eds. since the 2nd ed. 1957) ;
president of South African Ornithologists Society;Zoological Society’s Stevenson-Hamilton’s Award in 1988 ; Gill Memorial Award in Ornithology in 1992
draughtswoman -> Jill Adams (1932-2016) ; painter -> Norman C. K. Lighton ; draughtsman -> Henrik Grönvold (1858-1940) ;
