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HEWITT, HON. --- , son of James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford (I), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and his first wife Mary, only dau. of Ven. Rice Williams DD, Archdeacon of Carmarthen and Prebendary of Worcester; b.; at school under Markham (list of noblemen appended to alphabetical admissions under Nicoll, Chapter Muniments); evidently one of the elder brothers of Hon. Joseph Hewitt (qv). [see next entry]

HEWITT, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767, 1769; left 1769. [perhaps Hon. James Hewitt, elder brother of Hon. Joseph Hewitt (qv), b. 27 Oct 1750, Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1769, aged 18, BA 1772; Trinity Coll. Dublin, BA 1776, MA and LLD 1778, ordained; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Lifford (I) 28 Apr 1789; Dean of Armagh from 1796; m. 1st, 25 Jul 1776 Hon. Henrietta Judith Pomeroy, dau. of Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton (I); m. 2nd, 23 Dec 1781 Alicia, eldest dau. of Ven. John Oliver DD, Archdeacon of Ardagh; d. 15 Apr 1830] [Or else Hon. William Williams Hewitt; m. 16 Dec 1774 Anne, dau. of Thomas Strettell, Cork, merchant; d. Apr 1798]

HEWITT, EDMUND; b.; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1727; in under school list 1729; probably left 1729.

Hewitt, Gerald Percy Sandys, son of Edgar Percy Hewitt, K.C., of Hyde Park, by Mabel, daughter of George Fuller Sandys; b. Feb. 9, 1900; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (G); left Dec. 1914.

HEWITT, JAMES FRANCIS KATHERINUS, second son of Hon. and Rev. John Pratt Hewitt, Moneymore, co. Londonderry, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Francis Gervais, Cecil, co. Tyrone; b. 21 Jun 1835; adm. 22 Sep 1848 (G); QS 1850; suceeded William Turner Roe (qv) as Capt. of the School 1854; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1854, matr. 8 Jun 1854, Westminster Student 1854-60; BA 1858; Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1859; Officiating Secretary, Board of Revenue 1874; Magisrtate and Collector 1878; Commissioner, Chota Nagpur 1879; retd. 1885; author, The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India; m. 10 Mar 1870 Constance, youngest dau. of Edward Stanley, Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland; d. 14 Mar 1908.

Hewitt, Jonathan Francis, son of Sir John Francis Hewitt KCVO CBE, Sec. for Appointments to the Prime Minister, and Betty Mida Pantin, d. of Lieut. -Col. Harold Wilkinson Dale-Glossop MBE, Somerset Light Infantry, of Bramhope, Yorks; b. 2 Apr. 1940; adm. Sept. 1953 (G); left July 1958; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1958; Univ. per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy 1962; soc. Dante Alighieri, Rome, Italy 1963-4; pres. Antigradine SRL, Milan, Italy 1975; m. 30 Nov. 1974 Georgina Ferres, d. of Donald Ferres McCallum, co. dir., of Melville, W. Australia; d. 12 May 2014.

HEWITT, HON. JOSEPH, brother of Hon. --- Hewitt (qv); b.; adm. 4 Apr 1766; left Whitsun 1770; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1770, aged 16; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jul 1768, called to bar 16 Jun 1777; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 1776; practised at Irish bar; MP (I) Belfast 1784- Jul 1791; Third Serjeant (I) 1787, Second Serjeant (I) 1789; a Judge of King’s Bench, Ireland, from 27 Jul 1791; also Cursitor, Chancery (I) 13 Aug 1792; d. unm. 1 Apr 1794.

HEWITT, WILLIAM GRAILY, son of William Morse Graily Hewitt MD FRCP, Berkeley Square, London, consultant obstetric physician, and Elizabeth Bolton, dau. of William Hollis, Brunswick Place, Northampton; b. 20 Jul 1864; adm. from Wellington Coll 22 Jan 1880 (R); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1883, adm. pens. 4 Oct 1883, matr. Mich. 1883; BA and LLB 1886; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 May 1884, called to bar 28 Jan 1889; equity draftsman and conveyancer; adopted craft of handwriting and illuminating, teaching subject at LCC School of Arts and Crafts from 1902; member, Art Workers Guild 1903; m. 28 Jul 1908 Lilian Maud, dau. of Robert Davie Peebles, The Park, Royston, Herts.; d. 22 Dec 1952.

HEWITT, WILLIAM, son of William Hewitt, London; b.; in school list 1752; KS (aged 14) 1758. [Presumably William Hewitt, son of William Hewitt and Jane ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 15 Dec 1743 (IGI); his parents were doubtless William Hewitt, Cavendish Square, London, surgeon, and Jane, sister of Wright Morrice (qv)] [possibly William Hewett Hewitt, Surgeon and Ensign, 28th Foot, will proved PCC 22 Dec 1766, will made at Charleston, South Carolina]

Hewitt-Jones, David Anthony, son of Walter Hewitt-Jones, med. practitioner, of Pett Level, Sussex, and Ada Mary Dorothea, d. of Albert Vinson of Belvedere, Kent; b. 27 Jan. 1926; adm. Sept. 1938 (KS); left July 1943; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA MA 1955; RN (Sp) 1944-7 (PO Writer); dir. of Music Dean Close Junior Sch., Cheltenham, 1953-7; ARCO 1957; asst. music adviser Gloucs CC 1958-77; conductor Gloucs Youth Orchestra 1960-76, Stroud Choral Soc. 1968-77; a freelance accompanist, composer and conductor 1977-; m. 24 July 1950 Anita Lawson ARCM, music teacher, d. of Herbert Birrell Lawson, HM Inspector of Schools; d. 4 Oct. 1989.