Hewins, Maurice Gravenor, son of William Albert Samuel Hewins, M. P., of Putney, sometime Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, by Margaret, eldest daughter of James Slater, of Bescot Hall, Staffs; b. June 22, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (G); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1916, matric. Jan. 1919; B.A. 1922; served during Great War I from Feb. 24, 1917, as 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Middlesex Regt., and afterwards in T. F. Reserve, attached to the Colonial Office April 1918 - Jan. 1919; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn April 25, 1923; Q. C. 1952; m. Sept. 26, 1931, Constance Edith Mary, daughter of Thomas A. Stephenson; d. Oct. 23, 1953.