Cornwallis Hewett

Cornwallis Hewett FRSC (1787 – 13 September 1841) was a physician who served as Downing Professor of Medicine and Physician-Extraordinary to the King. His younger half-brother Prescott Gardner Hewett also served as Physician-Extraordinary as well as Serjeant Surgeon.

Early life Hewett was born in the East Indies in 1787 to William Nathan Wright Hewett of Calcutta and Bilham House, Doncaster.

Medical career After receiving his M.L. Hewett was appointed Downing Professor of Medicine, one of the most senior medical appointments in the gift of the University of Cambridge. He died at Brighton on 13 September 1841.

As well as being brother to Rev. John Short Hewett and Sir Prescott Gardner Hewett, Bt., he was also uncle of Rev. John Hewett and Vice-Admiral William Hewett, great uncle of John Prescott Hewett and of Rear Admiral George Hayley Hewett.