The Newman house is dedicated to which rector?
Institute of Public Administration (Ireland):  It was founded in 1957 at a meeting in Newman House where Tom Barrington became the first director. University College Dublin:  The university originates in a body founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman as the first rector known as the Catholic University of Ireland, re-formed in 1880 and chartered in its own right in 1908.
John Henry Newman