Notes for: Newman FOSKETT
In 1871 Living Blackthorn, Oxfordshire in parental home.
1881 living in Oxford, St Peters in parental home.
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1883 Sat Mar 31 Jackson's Oxford Journal
Oxford College Servants' Athletic Sports
Two Miles Bicycle Handicap, Challenge Cup, confined to members of the Oxonian Bicycle and Tricycle Club.
….N Foskett 200 yards.
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1887 Thu Apr 14 Birmingham Daily Post
GLEANINGS
A sad case of sudden death occurred at Oxford on Tuesday. A young man, named Newman Foskett, had been practising with a bicycle on the University running ground, and a short time after he had dismounted he suddenly fell off the seat upon which he was sitting, and died instantly.
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1887 Sat Apr 16 Jackson's Oxford Journal
Inquests before E L Hussey Esq, City Coroner
On Wednesday, at the Turf Tavern, St Helen's Passage, Holywell, on the body of Newman Foskett, aged 24, servant of All Souls' College.
Edward Woods, of Wheatley, uncle of the deceased, said he (the deceased) was accustomed to all sorts of exercise, and especially bicycling, and he had always been in good health. He saw him last at his father's house the Thursday before Easter, when he appeared to be in excellent health. The deceased had ridden over to witness's at Wheatlery frequently, and had on more than one occasion been to Dorchester and back. Only a week ago last Monday he had ridden over to Wheatley on his machine. He had never to witness's knowledge had a fall.
Frank Hutt, College servant, All Souls', said he had known the deceased for four years; he had always been, as far as he knew, in good health, and active. He had never complained to him of shortness of breath. On Tuesday afternoon he was with him on the University Running Ground, Iffley Road. There were to be some sports next week, and the deceased was training for a bicycle race. He was riding a new bicycle. It was a racing machine, and was much easier for him to ride than his old one. He had been round six times, viz., two miles. He had completed the lap, and got off. He then entered into conversation with the deceased, which lasted five minutes or more. The machine he had placed against the rails. Suddenly he fell without speaking a word. Witness then saw that he was dead. He did not break off abruptly in his speech, but finished a sentence referring to the new machine. He was not at all out of breath, or fatigued; there was nothing to show that he was unwell. Death took place about eight minutes, he should think, after he had dismounted. He had not been racing hard, but had taken it very quietly; he had not exerted himself at all.
Verdict, "Natural causes".