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.
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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
- HYETT, Charles (1677-1738). The History of Parliament. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
- "Two Eighteenth-Century Gloucester Gardens" by M.E. Richards, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1981, Vol. 99, pp. 123-126.
- "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.
- Historic England. "HYATT HOUSE (1245237)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- Hyett House. Gloucester Civic Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- Barnwood. British History Online. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
- 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
- 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