Career
Newbould originally joined the British Army as a trooper in the 1st Royal Dragoons and fought in the Second Boer War, but his main profession was in the developing entertainment industry, the cinema. He was a director of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres and worked for Gaumont British as a publicist. He was also a Chairman and Director of Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd; a director of London Film Company Ltd and director of Fenning’s Film Service Ltd. He was sometime Chairman and later President of the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Chairman of the Cinematograph Trade Council and a member of the Entertainment Industry Committee. He was said to act as the Cinema Trades unofficial representative in the House of Commons.
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