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HYETT, WILLIAM HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Henry Cay Adams, Shrewsbury, and Frances, dau. of Richard Marston, Willenhall, Staffs.; b. 2 Sep 1795; adm. 1805; left 1811; assumed surname of Hyett in lieu of Adams 5 Aug 1813, in pursuance of will of Benjamin Hyett (qv); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1813; while on his travels in 1819 Hyett swam across the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos in one hour and twenty minutes; of Painswick House, Gloucs.; DL JP Gloucestershire; MP (Whig) Stroud 1832-4; FRS 29 Feb 1844; made experiments on growth of trees by watering them with chemical solutions; issued privately his printed translations of Goethe, Victor Hugo, Filicaja and others; author, Flowers from the South, 1869; m. 25 Oct 1821 Anne Jane, second dau. of Joseph Seymour Biscoe, Hempsted Court, Gloucs.; d. 10 Mar 1877.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.