William Newmarch
[1] Born at Thirsk, Yorkshire, Newmarch went to school in York; as a young man, he held posts as a clerk there.A clerk for a stamp distributor, he moved on to the Yorkshire Fire and Life Office, and then to the banking house Leatham, Few, and Co., in Wakefield (1843–1846).He then moved to London and worked for three financial institutions: Newmarch took an active part in the Royal Statistical Society, of which he was one of the honorary secretaries, editor of its journal, and President (1869–1871), and the Political Economy Club.In early life Newmarch published a Guide to York, undertook correspondence in the Sheffield Iris, and gave lectures.[2] Newmarch collaborated with Thomas Tooke in the two final volumes of his History of Prices and was responsible for most of the work in them.