P. H. Newby Author, friend and colleague Anthony Thwaite in his obituary states: "P. H. Newby was one of the best English novelists of the second half of the century." P. H. Newby Percy Howard Newby CBE (25 June 1918 – 6 September 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel "Something to Answer For" having received the inaugural award in 1969. P.H. Newby, known as Howard Newby, was born in Crowborough, Sussex on 25 June 1918 and was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School in Worcestershire, and St Paul's College of
Arthur C. Newby Arthur C. Newby Arthur Calvin Newby (December 29, 1865—September 11, 1933) was a pioneer of the bicycle and automotive industry in Indianapolis, Indiana and one of the four founders of the Indianapolis Speedway with Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison and Frank H. Wheeler. He was born near Monrovia, Indiana but his family moved to Kansas City then California. Newby came back to Indiana and Indianapolis in his late teens and worked his way up to head bookkeeper at milling machinery manufacturer, Nordyke Marmon & Company. A keen cyclist he set up the Zig-Zag Bicycling Club and remained its secretary