HEWETSON, Charles. Entered Madras army 1811; col. 49 Madras N.I. 21 July 1861 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Madras 4 Feb. 1873.
HEWETT, Sir Prescott Gardiner, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Nathan Wrighte Hewett of Bilham hall near Doncaster). b. 3 July 1812; ed. at St. George’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1836, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, professor of human anatomy and surgery, member of council 1867, vice pres. 1875, pres. 1876; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 14 Oct. 1867, sergeant surgeon extraord. 19 Feb. 1877; surgeon in ord. to Prince of Wales 10 March 1874; pres. of Clinical Soc. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; retired from practice Nov. 1883; created baronet 6 Aug. 1883. d. Chestnut lodge, Horsham, Sussex 19 June 1891. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 25 June.
HEWETT, Sir William Nathan Wrighte (2 son of Dr. William Wrighte Hewett). b. Brighton 12 Aug. 1834; entered the navy March 1847; shewed great presence of mind and courage in a battery before Sebastopol and at Inkerman 1854, lieut. 20 Oct.; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; commodore and commander in chief on west coast of Africa during Ashantee war 1873–76, and present at capture of Coomassie; K.C.B. 31 March 1874, Ashantee medal with clasp; commander in chief in East Indies 1882–5; occupied Suez and seized the Canal 1882; defended Suakim 6 Feb. 1884, governor for the Khedive 10 Feb.; went on a mission to king John of Abyssinia, April 1884; commander of Channel squadron 18 March 1886 to 17 April 1888; known as the fighting admiral; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882. d. Haslar hospital, Portsmouth 13 May 1888. Times 15 May 1888 p. 8, 16 May pp. 11, 16, 18 May p. 5; I.L.N. xxxix 41 (1861), portrait, lxxxiv 172 (1884), portrait.
HEWITSON, William Chapman. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806; ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephenson on London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up business; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean 1862; author of British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols. 1833–42; Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1856; Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera 2 vols. 1863–78; Description of 100 new species of hesperediæ 1867. d. Oatlands park 28 May 1878. bur. Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller institute Bristol. Academy 8 June 1878 p. 512; Nature xviii, 196–7 (1878).
HEWITT, Daniel Chandler. b. Scotland 1789; author of New analysis of music, a theory of melody, harmony and modulation 1828; The true science of music 1860 and 1864. d. London 1869.
HEWITT, John. b. Lichfield 1807; organist St. Mary’s ch. Lichfield; in war office, London; resided at Woolwich; wrote articles in magazines under name of Sylvanus Swanquill; author of The tower of London, its history 1841; Ancient armour and weapons in Europe 3 vols. 1855–60; Official catalogue of the Tower armories 1859; Old Woolwich 1860; Handbook for the city of Lichfield 1874, 2 ed. 1884 and other works. d. Lichfield 10 Jany. 1878. bur. in cathedral close 15 Jany. Reliquary xviii, 228–30 (1877–8).
HEWITT, William Henry. b. 1791; entered Bengal army 1806; col. 27 Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 30 Dec. 1859. d. Westfield house, Bath 16 April 1863 aged 72.
HEWLETT, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Hewlett of Oxford). b. Oxford 16 March 1845; of Magd. hall Ox., B. Mus. 22 June 1865; organist Duke of Buccleuch’s chapel, Dalkeith; teacher and organist in Edin.; accompanyist Edin. Sacred harmonic soc.; organist Newington park ch. Edin.; wrote Are other eyes, Madrigal 1864; The good old days, A Christmas song 1865; Introduction, offertoire and fuge for the organ 1867; Second offertoire for the organ 1872 and Third 1872. d. 2 Hope park crescent, Edinburgh 1 April 1874.
HEWLETT, Thomas Gillham. b. 1832; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist. surgeon Bombay army 20 Jany. 1854, surgeon 20 Jany. 1865; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8; deputy assay master Bombay mint; health officer Bombay when he organized the public health department; sanitary commissioner for Bombay presidency; deputy surgeon general Bombay 1 Nov. 1879; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Reports on leprosy in the Bombay presidency 1879; Report on enteric fever 1883. d. of heart disease at Finchley road station, Metropolitan railway 8 Oct. 1889. Times 29 Oct. 1889 p. 9, 31 Oct. p. 10.
HEWSON, Rev. William (son of William Hewson, banker’s clerk). b. 12 April 1806. bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 29 Dec.; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Bishop Burton, Yorks. 1830–3; C. of Spofforth 1834–5; head master of Sherburn gram. sch. Yorks. 1835–8 and of St. Peter’s sch. York 1838–47; P.C. of Goatland 1848 to death; author of The key of David or the mystery of the 7 sealed books of Jewish prophecy 1855; The oblation and temple of Ezekiel’s prophetic visions 5 parts 1858; Thy kingdom come 1859; Christianity in relation to Judaism and Heathenism 1860; The Hebrew and Greek scriptures compared with Oriental history, dialling, science and mythology 7 parts 1870. d. 1 St. Hilda ter. Whitby 23 April 1870. bur. York cemet. Smales’ Whitby authors (1867) 104, 171–6, 217; Whitby Times 29 April 1870 p. 4.