 Richard Newport (died 1570)

Richard Newport (by 1511–12 September 1570) was an English landowner and politician of Shropshire origin, prominent regionally during the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods .Richard Newport was the eldest son of Thomas Newport of High Ercall, Shropshire,  and Anne Corbet, the daughter of Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet and his wife, Elizabeth Vernon.