Benjamin Hyett II

Benjamin Hyett (1708–1762) of Painswick House, Gloucestershire, was an eighteenth-century garden creator.

Life He was born 17 December 1708, the eldest son of Charles Hyett (d. 1738), a leading citizen of Gloucester. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and the Inner Temple, becoming a barrister in 1731. In 1733 his father bought an estate in Painswick and built a house as a country residence. In 1741 he unsuccessfully stood as MP for Gloucester in the Tory interest. he married Frances (d. 1768), the only child of Sir Thomas Snell, a London merchant who had settled in Upton St Leonards. He died without any surviving children in 1762 and his estate passed to his brother Nicholas.

A few years later he created a slightly larger garden at his Painswick house, known then as Buenos Aires.