Birth name | George Hayley Hewett |
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Born | 12 November 1855 Catsfield, East Sussex |
Died | 7 October 1930 Alverstoke, Hampshire | (aged 74)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Rank | Rear Admiral |
Commands held | Director of the Royal Indian Marine |
Battles/wars | Anglo-Zulu War |
Awards | Order of the Star of India |
Relations | John Hewett (father) |
George Hayley Hewett, CIE (12 November 1855 – 7 October 1930) was a British naval officer in the Royal Indian Navy who rose to become Director of the Royal Indian Marine.[1][2] Hewett was also the brother of the colonial administrator and Member of Parliament, Sir John Prescott Hewett.
Hewett was born in Catsfield, Sussex, the son of Rev. John Hewett, then curate of Battle, East Sussex and later Vicar of Babbacombe, and his wife, Anna Louisa Lyster Hammon, daughter of Capt. William Hammon of the East India Company Navy, and the younger brother of Sir John Prescott Hewett.[3] He went to prep school in Lancing, West Sussex and entered the Royal Navy 1869.[4]
On 11 March 1895 Hewett married Elanthea Leonora Grant, daughter of Charles Coote Grant of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, a descendant of Sir Charles Coote.[3][9] Hewett and Grant had one daughter together, Genevieve Felicia Hewett.
Elanthea died in 1914, however Hewett lived another 16 years, dying on 7 October 1930 in Alverstoke, Hampshire.