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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|PCi}} (11 June 1750 – 21 March 1840) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] and then [[Commander-in-Chief, Ireland]] for the [[British Army]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Educated at [[Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster|Wimborne Grammar School]] and the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], Hewett was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot|70th Regiment of Foot]] in 1762.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13143 George Hewett at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> In 1771, he went to [[Province of New York|New York]] to help control the Carib Uprising and in 1780 he took part in the Siege of [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charlestown]].<ref name=odnb/><br />
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In 1787, he was appointed [[Commanding Officer]] of the [[43rd Regiment of Foot]] and in 1791, he went to [[Ireland]] where he became Adjutant-General and raised a new Regiment which was designated the 92nd Regiment of Foot.<ref name=odnb/><br />
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He returned to [[England]], where he served as Inspector General of Recruiting for the British Army from 1798 to 1804.<ref name="Glover1963">{{cite book |last1=Glover |first1=Richard |title=Peninsular Preparation: the Reform of the British Army 1795-1809 |date=1963 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=219}}</ref> He was given the colonelcy of the [[61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot]] for life in 1800 and became Barrackmaster-General in 1804.<ref name=odnb/> In 1807, he became [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] and in 1809 he briefly took over the [[Government of India]] while the [[Governor-General of India|Governor-General]] put down a mutiny.<ref name=odnb/> His last appointment was as [[Commander-in-Chief, Ireland]] in 1813.<ref name=odnb/><br />
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He was created a Baronet, of Nether Seale in the County of Leicester, on 6 November 1813.<ref>[http://thepeerage.com/p31132.htm#i311316 The Peerage.com]</ref><br />
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He lived at Freemantle Park near [[Southampton]].<ref name=odnb/><br />
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==Family==<br />
In 1785, he married Julia Johnson and together they went on to have five sons and six daughters, including [[Sir George Henry Hewett, 2nd Baronet|Col. Sir George Henry Hewett, 2nd Baronet]].<ref name=odnb/><br />
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