Abraham Newland

Abraham Newland. A name by which a Bank-of-England note was long known, owing to its being made payable to Mr. Newland, the cashier. An old song, fifty or sixty years ago, ran thus: --

"For fashion and arts, should you seek foreign parts,
It matters not wherever you land,
Hebrew, Latin, or Greek, the same language they speak,
The language of Abraham Newland.
CHORUS
Oh Abraham Newland, notified Abraham Newland!
With compliments crammed, you may die and be damned,
If you haven't an Abraham Newland."

An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction; including also familiar pseudonyms, surnames bestowed on eminent men, and analogous popular appellations often referred to in literature and conversation.
By William A. Wheeler.
Nineteenth Edition.
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1884

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