Nicholas Hyett
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Nicholas Hyett (1709-1777) was a lawyer and justice of the peace in Gloucester, England, and one of the last keepers and constables of the Castle of Gloucester.
Life
[edit]Nicholas Hyett was born in 1709 to Charles Hyett (d. 1738) and younger brother of Benjamin Hyett (1708–62), who was responsible for the Rococo garden at Painswick House.[1]
He followed his elder brother to Pembroke College, Oxford and the Inner Temple, where they became barristers in the same year.[2] Hyett became a lawyer and justice of the peace, serving as recorder for Tewkesbury for 17 years from 1760.[3] When his elder brother died childless in 1762, he inherited the family estate.[4] In 1765 he was granted by letters patent the office of keeper and constable of the Castle of Gloucester by King George III.[5][6] By that time the office was largely honorary as the castle had long since been reduced just to a keep which was used as a gaol. His father Charles had been granted the same office in 1715.[1]
Nicholas Hyett stood as a Tory for the parliamentary constituency of Gloucester unsuccessfully in 1734.[7]
Hyett was probably responsible for the current façade of Hyatt House, a grade II listed building in Westgate Street, Gloucester.[8][9]
Family
[edit]Hyett married a widow, Henrietta Maria Holker (née James), by whom he had a son Benjamin,[10] who was appointed a freeman of Gloucester in 1762.[11]
Death
[edit]Hyett died in 1777.[1] His Will is held by the British National Archives at Kew.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Richards, M.E. (1981). "Two Eighteenth-Century Gloucester Gardens" (PDF). Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 99: 123–126.
- ^ Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886. p. 725.
- ^ Williams, William Retlaw (1898). The Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester. p. 250.
- ^ "VCH Gloucestershire Volume 11: Painswick: Manors and other estates". Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "The Archaeology of Gloucester Castle: an Introduction", Henry Hurst, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1984, Vol. 102, 73-128, p. 120.
- ^ Rudge, Thomas (1803). The History of the County of Gloucester: Compressed, and Brought Down to the Year 1803. Vol. I. Gloucester: Thomas Rudge. p. 53.
- ^ "History of Parliament, Constituencies, 1715-1754:Gloucester". Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ Historic England. "HYATT HOUSE (1245237)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ Hyett House. Gloucester Civic Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ "VCH Gloucestershire, Volume 10:Moreton Valence: Manors and Estates". Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ Ripley, Peter, & John Jurica (Ed.) (1991) A Calendar of the Registers of the Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641-1838. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. p. 136. ISBN 0900197323
- ^ Will of Nicholas Hyett of Gloucester, Gloucestershire. National Archives. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- http://www.bgas.org.uk/code/genindex.php?query=hyett
- http://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/gardening-scene-by-the-limner-of-bath-in-the-first-of-an-occasional-series-on-gardens-in-paintings-anna-pavord-looks-at-thomas-robinss-18thcentury-study-of-painswick-in-gloucestershire-1481779.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-32914568