HEWES, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1568-70 (Chapter Muniments 54017-8, 54021).
HEWET, BENJAMIN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627; BA 1630/1.
HEWET, GILBERT; b.; adm.; KS 1672; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1675, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1675, scholar 1676, matr. 1676; BA 1678/9; MA 1682; ordained deacon 4 Mar 1682, priest 23 Sep 1683 (both Winchester); Curate of West Molesey, Surrey 1682; Rector of Swarraton, Hampshire, and Perpetual Curate of Northington, Hampshire, by 1686 – still 1708 (no longer 1717).
Hewett, John Metcalfe Grenside, son of W. Grenside Hewett, of Chiswick; b. Oct. 7, 1897; adm. April 26, 1912 (A); left July 1916; a precision engineer; agricultural engr., Shaftoe Estate, Spennymoor, co. Durham, 1942-5.
HEWETT, PETER SELWOOD, son of William Nathan Wright Hewett, EICS Bengal, Bilham Hall, Yorks., and his first wife Martha Tuting; grandson of Selwood Hewett (qv); b. 27 Nov 1792; in school list May 1803; left 1806; went to Dr. Burney’s school, Greenwich; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1811; resigned in India 12 Jul 1813; entered service of Nizam of Hyderabad, becoming Lieut, 7th Regt. of Nizam’s Regular Infantry; m. Sarah ---; d. at Conor, Madras 9 Jul 1834.
HEWETT, SELWOOD, son of Thomas Hewett, St. James’s, Westminster, and Mary Sellwood (sic); b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1735; left 1744; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1744; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Apr 1744, Grays Inn 22 Dec 1749; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George II and George III (occurs 1760-83); Maj., West Riding Militia 1 Feb 1772-9; m. 4 Feb 1750 (IGI) Anne, dau. of William Wrighte, Recorder of Leicester (qv ?); d. 20 Dec 1789.
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.
HEWITT, ---; b.; in school list 1754.
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]