John Short Hewett

John Short Hewett (1781 – 12 December 1835) was an Anglican priest and academic who served as Chaplain and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Chaplain to the Forces and Rector of Rotherhithe. He came from a distinguished family, his brother was Dr Cornwallis Hewett, his half-brother was Sir Prescott Gardner Hewett, 1st Bt., he was father to Rev. John Hewett and grandfather to Sir John Prescott Hewett and Rear Admiral George Hayley Hewett and his nephew became Vice-Admiral Sir William Nathan Wrighte Hewett.

Early life Hewett was born in India in 1781, the son of William Nathan Wright Hewett of Bilham Hall, near Doncaster, a once wealthy landowner who lost the majority of his fortune to horse-racing and had to leave the country for Calcutta. Hewett was educated at Clare College, Cambridge which he matriculated into in 1799 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1803. In 1807 he resigned his position as Vicar of Cromer in Norfolk. In 1808 he was appointed Curate of Toft with Caldecote in Cambridgeshire and in 1811 he was appointed Vicar of the Parish Church of Sheringham in Norfolk, although he relinquished that later. In 1825 Hewett received his Doctorate of Divinity from Clare College, Cambridge. In 1835 he resigned from the church to live in Boulogne-sur-Mer until his death on 12 December 1835. The marriage took place in Brede, East Sussex. The couple had two children together:

Rev. John Hewett Felicia Hewett, married William Johnstone Bellingham, son of Sir Alan Bellingham, 2nd Bt.

Hewett died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on 12 December 1835 and his wife outlived him by almost 40 years dying in Brede, Sussex on 25 September 1873.