Sir Edward Newton KCMG (November, 1832 – April 25, 1897) was a British

United Kingdom

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 colonial administrator and ornithologist.

He was born at Elveden Hall

Elveden Hall

Elveden Hall is a large privately owned house overlooking the large Elveden Estate in Elveden, Suffolk, England. It is located centrally to the village and is close to the A11 and the Parish Church....

, Suffolk the sixth and youngest son of William Newton, MP. He was the brother of ornithologist Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...

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Newton was the Colonial Secretary

Chief Secretary

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 for Mauritius

Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

 from 1859 to 1877. From there he sent his brother a number of specimens, including the Dodo

Dodo

The dodo was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about , living on fruit, and nesting on the ground....

 and the Rodrigues Solitaire

Rodrigues Solitaire

The Rodrigues Solitaire was a flightless member of the pigeon order endemic to Rodrigues, Mauritius. It was a close relative of the Dodo.-Discovery:...

, both already extinct. Edward was later Colonial Secretary and Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica

Jamaica

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He is commemorated in the binomial of the Madagascar Kestrel

Madagascar Kestrel

The Madagascar Kestrel , also known as Malagasy Spotted Kestrel, Newton's Kestrel, Madagascar Spotted Kestrel, katiti or hitsikitsika , is a small bird of prey of the genus Falco. It is named after British ornithologist Edward Newton. It occurs in two subspecies on Madagascar and at Aldabra...

Falco newtoni.