Theodore Newton was born near Sarnia, Ontario, in 1903. He earned a B.A. in 1925 and an M.A. in English in 1927 from McGill University, and also an M.A. from Harvard University. He was a member of the English Department at Harvard University from 1929 to 1937, then Associate Professor in the English Department and Assistant Warden of Douglas Hall at McGill University from 1937 to 1943. Theodore Newton joined the Wartime Information Board in Ottawa in 1943, and he was appointed the official Canadian representative to the United Nations Information Board, where he served until 1945. He was then transferred to New York and appointed Director of the New York Information Office. Between 1946 and 1948 he was the First Secretary of the Canadian Embassy in Washington. From 1948 to 1950 Theodore Newton was Canadian Consul for New England with headquarters in Boston. Between 1950 and 1953 he served as Director of Information with the North Atlantic Council in Paris and London. He worked as a Minister-Counsellor for the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo from 1954 to 1957. Theodore Newton was also Ambassador to Indonesia from 1958 to 1960, to Columbia and Ecuador between 1961 and 1964, and then he returned to the Department in Ottawa. He worked as a correspondent for the Montreal Star during the years 1926 to 1928. His publications are on the reign of Queen Anne and the history of English journalism. He is the author of several studies of English Literature during the period of Queen Anne.