Sir Francis Adams Hyett (1844–1941) was chairman of

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from 1918 to 1920.

Early life and family

Francis Hyett was born in

Painswick House Painswick House is a grade I listed house in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England. It is surrounded by a Grade II* listed rococo garden. The house and a range of outbuildings were built in the 1730s by Charles Hyett to escape the smog of Glouces ...

in 1844, the son of

William Henry Hyett William Henry Hyett (2 September 1795 – 10 March 1877) was a British Whig Member of Parliament representing Stroud who was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 13 December 1832. Originally William Henry Adams, he was the so ...

. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1864, graduating B.A. in 1868. He was

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at the

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in 1872, and worked as a conveyancer.

Career

Hyett was a co-founder of the

Marling School Marling School is a grammar school with academy status for boys, with a co-educational Sixth Form located in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. It is on the Cainscross Road, the main route out of Stroud towards the M5, and is situated next to the ...

Stroud Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five ...

. Hyett was chairman of Gloucestershire County Council from 1918 to 1920. From 1895 to 1937, he served as chairman of Barnwood House Hospital, a private Mental Asylum in the outskirts of Gloucester. His Father was instrumental in the founding of the hospital in Barnwood and was its first chairman.

Death and legacy

Hyett died in 1941. His portrait by Hugh Goldwin Riviere is in

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.Sir Francis Adams Hyett.
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Selected publications

*''Gloucester and her Governor during the Great Civil War. A lecture, etc.'' John Bellows, Gloucester, 1891. *''The Civil War in the Forest of Dean, 1643-1645''. 1895. *''The Painswick Annual Register. Jan. 1890-Dec. 1899. A decade of parochial history''. Gloucester, 1900. (compiler) *''Florence. Her History and Art to the Fall of the Republic''. Methuen, London, 1903. *''An Octet of Sonnets by F. A. H. With Christmas Greetings from the Author''. Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, 1905. *''Gloucester in National History''. John Bellows, Gloucester; Kegan Paul & Co., London; 1906."Some books of the week".
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'', 29 December 1906, p. 1085. *''Chattertoniana, Being a Classified Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Magazine Articles, & Other Printed Matter Relating to the Life or Works of Chatterton, or to the Rowley Controversy.'' John Bellows, Gloucester, 1914. (With William Bazeley) *''Glimpses of the History of Painswick, with a Bibliography of its Literature''. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1928.

Early life and family

Career

Death and legacy

Selected publications

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