Nicholas Hyett

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.

Gloucester Castle keep in use as part of the county gaol in the 18th century. (A later work said to be based on an 1819 original)

Life

Nicholas Hyett was born in 1709 to Charles Hyett (1677[1] or 1686[2] - 1738), member of Parliament for Gloucester 1722–1727. He was the grandson of Benjamin Hyett (1651-1711).[2] He had a brother Benjamin Hyett II (1708–62) who was responsible for the Rococo garden at Painswick House.[1][2]

Hyett became a lawyer and justice of the peace, and in 1765 was granted by letters patent the office of keeper and constable of the Castle of Gloucester by King George III.[3][4] 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.[2]

Nicholas and Benjamin Hyett, stood as Tories for the parliamentary constituency of Gloucester unsuccessfully in 1734 and 1741.[1]

Hyett was probably responsible for the current façade of Hyatt House, a grade II listed building in Westgate Street, Gloucester.[5][6]

Family

Hyett had a son Benjamin,[7] who was appointed a freeman of Gloucester in 1762.[8]

Death

Hyett died in 1777.[2] His Will is held by the British National Archives at Kew.[9]

References
  1. HYETT, Charles (1677-1738). The History of Parliament. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. "Two Eighteenth-Century Gloucester Gardens" by M.E. Richards, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1981, Vol. 99, pp. 123-126.
  3. "The Archaeology of Gloucester Castle: an Introduction", Henry Hurst, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1984, Vol. 102, 73-128, p. 120.
  4. 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.
  5. Historic England. "HYATT HOUSE (1245237)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  6. Hyett House. Gloucester Civic Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  7. Barnwood. British History Online. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  8. 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
  9. Will of Nicholas Hyett of Gloucester, Gloucestershire. National Archives. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
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