Biography
In 1884 he arrived in Hood River Oregon where he practiced medicine.
In 1889 he lived at Victoria BC.
He was the father of Charles Percy Hamilton Newcombe, William Arnold Newcombe and Arthur Henry Newcombe.
He was a physician educated in London UK and Aberdeen UK, specializing in mental health.
He collected natural history specimens for museums in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1897 in his sloop Pelican studying geology and ethnology.
In 1904 he took an exhibit of First Nation material to the St. Louis World Fair.
In 1914 he edited "The First Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island."
Vessels Owned / Designed
Pelican (sloop)
Search for vessels associated with Newcombe →
Named Features
Newcombe Peak (BC); Newcombe Inlet (Queen Charlotte Islands), Newcombe Channel (BC); Newcombe Bay (BC)
References
- BCELP Geographical Place Names Cards Correspondence To/From BC Chief Geographer
- Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973)
- Camas Historical Group (1978)
