Relationship To Isaac Newton
Before he was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705, the scientist Isaac Newton submitted to the College of Heralds a genealogy in which he claimed a common male-line ancestry with Sir John Newton, the 3rd Baronet. Sir John was happy to support this claim by a man who was then one of the most famous savants in the world, but in reality Isaac Newton's ancestry is obscure and the male line cannot be documented beyond his grandfather. The heraldic device of the Newton baronets (blazoned as "sable, two shinbones in saltire argent, the dexter surmounted of the sinister") was adopted by Sir Isaac Newton. It was added to the entrance to Woolsthorpe Manor, the home in Lincolnshire where he was born and raised, in 1798 (National Trust Images).
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