The Captain Noel Newton why?
Should it not be Major Charles Noel Newton?
The pub is expected to open on 12th November 2013
It is reported in the press the above name is to be given to the new Wetherspoon it is said the captain was a former High Sheriff of Rutland from the 1930's. below is a list of High Sheriffs from 1921 - 1940
1934: Major Charles Noel Newton of Ashwell Grange is the only Newton Listed
1921: Harry Simpson Gee of Teigh [3]
1922: Thomas Casswell Molesworth of Ketton [3]
1923: David Needham Royce of Oakham [3]
1924: Frederick Thomas Walker of Norton Lees, Sheffield [3]
1925: William James Baird of Oakham [3]
1926: Wilfred Henry Montgomery Finch of Burley-on-the-Hill [3]
1927: Roger John Edward Conant, Bt of Lyndon [3]
1928: John Burnaby-Atkins of Tolethorpe [3]
1929: John Davenport–Handley–Humphreys, of Clipsham [3]
1930: Cecil Gorham Gee of Rothley [3]
1931: Lawrence Kimball of Barleythorpe [3]
1932: Vere Finch of Manton [3]
1933: Lt Col Denis Plantagenet Tollemache of Manton [3]
1934: Major Charles Noel Newton of Ashwell Grange [3]
1935: Major William Willmott Mawson of Uppingham [3]
1936: Colonel Robert Evelyn Manners Heathcote of Manton [3]
1937: Captain Samuel Alexander Watt of Gunthorpe [3]
1938: George Kenneth Fordham Ruddle of Langham [3]
1939: Samuel Ernest Chesterman of Wing [3]
1940: Captain James Arthur Hornsby of Ashwell [3]
