| Dates: | 1857, 25 November - 1924, 28 December | | Born: | India, Madras | | Died: | Scotland, Edinburgh |
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John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, Burma
Son of Charles Edward (teacher, Coimbatore) and Priscilla Charlotte. Baptised, Madras, 17 Jan 1858.[1] Educated at Madras Medical College; Civil Assistant Surgeon, Madras, 1879-80; LRCP and S., Edinburgh, 1880; Indian Medical Service (Madras) 1881-99. Served Sudan, 1885; Burma, 1886-9; N.E. Frontier, Manipur, 1891; Burma, 1891-6 (operations in Chin Hills and on N.E. Frontier with Baungshe, Tlang Tlang and Tashon columns. d. at 38 Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh
Author: The image of war or service in the Chin Hills (1894); Handbook of language of the Lais (1897). Newland’s photographs also appear, uncredited, in Charles Crosthwaite, The pacification of Burma.
Photographed in Burma while on service in the 1880s-90s; his Image of war (1894) is illustrated with many of his photographs. He contributed a series of illustrated articles on the Burma campaigns to the Illustrated London News in 1889.
Illustrations from photographs by Newland and Sergeant Sinclair (Queen’s Own Sappers and Miners) also appear in B.S. Carey and H.N. Tuck, The Chin Hills (Rangoon, 1896).
Two at least of Newland’s photographs, finely reproduced in collotype, were published, in the Journal of the Photographic Society of India in 1892.[2] In the accompanying text, he is described as ‘a member whose work is known and appreciated all over the world wherever pictures go.’
Footnotes
- Λ Cadet papers, IOR/L/MIL/9/408/ff.44-9.
- Λ Journal of the Photographic Sociey of India, vol. 5 no. 2, February 1892, p. 20 and vol. 5, no. 3, March 1892, p. 38.
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