had no children. Under the will of John Sterling (died 1844), Francis became guardian of his orphaned son Edward Conyngham Sterling. Edward (Teddy) went to live with the Newmans in Manchester; for a while his younger brother, John Barton Sterling was there also − their sisters went to their uncle Anthony Coningham Sterling. Edward Sterling was an artist, and married in 1868 Bertha Stone, a suffragist, daughter of Frank Stone. Born in 1831 on Munro Plantation, St Vincent, he died in 1877. He had a house built in Sheffield Terrace, London, in 1876, by Alfred Waterhouse. Secondly, Newman married Eleanor Williams on 3 December 1878. Death After his retirement from University College, Newman continued to live for some years in London, subsequently removing to Clifton, and eventually to Weston-super-Mare, where he died in 1897. He had been blind for five years before his death, but retained his faculties to the last. Newman's funeral address was given by John Temperley Grey. It contained the comment that he was "a saint in the very thick of life's battle." Legacy Newman is listed on the south face of The Reformers' Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Karl Marx quoted from Newman's "Lectures on Political Economy", given at Bedford College in Capital, Volume III, p. 595. Works Newman studied mathematics and oriental languages, but wrote little until 1847. He is credited with the Weierstrass definition of the gamma function (1848, in reciprocal form). Linguistic As listed in the Dictionary of National Biography. A Collection of Poetry for … Elocution, 1850 Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice, 1861; a reply to Matthew Arnold. The Text of the Iguvine Inscriptions, 1864 A Handbook of Modern Arabic, 1866 Translations of English Poetry into Latin Verse, 1868 Orthoëpy … Mode of Accenting English, 1869 Dictionary of Modern Arabic, 1871, 2 vols. Libyan Vocabulary, 1882 Comments on the Text of Æschylus, 1884 Supplement … and Notes on Euripides, 1890 Kabail Vocabulary, 1887 Translations or adaptations into Latin: (In the preface Newman describes himself as "taking only the general idea from Defoe".) Religion Prominent were: History of the Hebrew Monarchy (1847; 1853); intended to introduce the results of German scholarship and Biblical criticism. The Soul (1849; 3rd edit. 1852) This work made a favourable impression on Charlotte Brontë. Phases of Faith (1850; 1852), autobiographical, detailing the author's passage from Calvinism to theism. Theism, Doctrinal and Practical, 1858 Others listed