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{{Short description|British Royal Naval Admiral}}
{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix =
| name = George Hayley Hewett<br/>{{post-nominals|country=UK|size=75%|sep=,|CIE|ADC|RN}}
| birth_date = {{birth-date|12 November 1855}}
| death_date = {{death-date and age|7 October 1930|12 November 1855}}
| placeofburial_label =
| placeofburial =
| birth_place = [[Catsfield]], [[East Sussex]]
| death_place = [[Alverstoke, Hampshire]]
| birth_name = George Hayley Hewett
| allegiance = {{UK}}
| branch = [[File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|23px]] [[Royal Navy]]
| serviceyears =
| rank = [[Rear admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear Admiral]]
| unit =
| commands = [[Royal Indian Navy#Director of the Royal Indian Marine (1892–1928)|Director of the Royal Indian Marine]]
| battles = [[Anglo-Zulu War]]
| awards = [[Order of the Star of India]]
| relations = [[John Hewett (priest)|John Hewett]] (father)
| laterwork =
}}

'''George Hayley Hewett''', {{post-nominals|country=UK|size=100|sep=,|CIE||}} (12 November 1855 – 7 October 1930) was a British naval officer in the [[Royal Indian Navy]] who rose to become Director of the Royal Indian Marine.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Navy List: July 1908 |publisher=HM Government, UK |date=July 1908 |pages=439 |chapter=Officers of the Royal Indian Marine }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28151 |date=23 June 1908|pages=4641–4648 |supp=y}}</ref> Hewett was also the brother of the colonial administrator and [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]], [[John Hewett (civil servant)|Sir John Prescott Hewett]].

==Early life==
Hewett was born in Catsfield, Sussex, the son of [[John Hewett (priest)|Rev. John Hewett]], then curate of [[Battle, East Sussex]] and later Vicar of [[Babbacombe]], and his wife, Anna Louisa Lyster Hammon, daughter of Capt. William Hammon of the East India Company Navy, and the younger brother of [[John Hewett (civil servant)|Sir John Prescott Hewett]].<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite web |title=Hewett, Rear-Adm. George Hayley |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U211175 |website=Who's Who 2022 & Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U211175 |access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref> He went to prep school in [[Lancing, West Sussex]] and entered the [[Royal Navy]] 1869.<ref name="dreadnought">{{cite web |title=George Hayley Hewett |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/George_Hayley_Hewett |website=dreadnoughtproject.org |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref>

==Naval career==
Following his entry into the Navy in 1869, Hewett was promoted to the rank of [[Lieutenant (navy)|Lieutenant]] on 30 December 1879 whilst serving in the [[Anglo-Zulu War]] for which he received the Zulu War Medal.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hewett |first1=George Hayley |title=Admiralty, 21th December, 1879 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24797/page/2 |website=London Gazette |publisher=The London Gazette |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Who's Who"/> He was aboard the HMS ''Bonetta'' for the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria|Jubilee]] Manoeuvres in the summer of 1887.<ref name="dreadnought"/> In 1889 he was appointed commander of the HMS ''Pigmy'' where he served until 1893 at which point he was appointed Captain of the [[gunboat]] HMS ''Magpie''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Navy List |date=April 1891 |page=243}}</ref> He was then promoted to the rank of [[Commander (Royal Navy)|Commander]] on 30 June 1893.<ref>{{cite web |title=Admiralty, 29th December, 1899 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27150/page/3 |website=The Gazette |publisher=The London Gazette |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref> He commanded the torpedo cruiser [[HMS Racoon (1887)|HMS ''Racoon'']] on the [[East Indies Station]] from 1897 through 1899, when he was promoted to the rank of [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]].<ref name="dreadnought"/> As a captain, he commanded the coast defence [[Breastwork monitor]] [[HMS Magdala (1870)|HMS ''Magdala'']], which was then at [[Bombay]].<ref name="dreadnought"/>

In 1904 he was appointed [[Royal Indian Navy#Director of the Royal Indian Marine (1892–1928)|Director of the Royal Indian Marine]], a position in which he served until 1908 at which point he retired as a [[Rear admiral (Royal Navy)|rear-admiral]] and was appointed Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Navy List: July 1908 |publisher=HM Government, UK |date=July 1908 |pages=439 |chapter=Officers of the Royal Indian Marine }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Admiralty 6th November, 1908 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28193/page/8028 |website=The Gazette |publisher=The London Gazette |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref>

==Family==
On 11 March 1895 Hewett married Elanthea Leonora Grant, daughter of Charles Coote Grant of the [[Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment]], a descendant of [[Charles Coote (1695–1750)|Sir Charles Coote]].<ref name="Who's Who"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Coote Family Tree |url=https://nickreddan.net/trees/coote.pdf |website=nickreddan.net |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref> Hewett and Grant had one daughter together, Genevieve Felicia Hewett.

Elanthea died in 1914, however Hewett lived another 16 years, dying on 7 October 1930 in [[Alverstoke, Hampshire]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U211175 Who's Who page]

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