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Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet (11 June 1750 – 21 March 1840) was

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and then

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for the

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Military career

Educated at

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and the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

, Hewett was commissioned into the

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in 1762.George Hewett at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref> In 1771, he went to

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to help control the Carib Uprising and in 1780 he took part in the Siege of Charlestown. In 1787, he was appointed

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of the

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and in 1791, he went to

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where he became Adjutant-General and raised a new Regiment which was designated the 92nd Regiment of Foot. He returned to

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, where he served as Inspector General of Recruiting for the British Army from 1798 to 1804. He was given the colonelcy of the

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for life in 1800 and became Barrackmaster-General in 1804. In 1807, he became

and in 1809 he briefly took over the

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while the

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put down a mutiny. His last appointment was as

in 1813. He was created a Baronet, of Nether Seale in the County of Leicester, on 6 November 1813.The Peerage.com
/ref> He lived at Freemantle Park near

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Family

In 1785, he married Julia Johnson and together they went on to have five sons and six daughters, including Col. Sir George Henry Hewett, 2nd Baronet.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hewett, George 1750 births 1840 deaths British Army generals Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Commanders-in-Chief, Ireland British Commanders-in-Chief of India 61st Regiment of Foot officers East Surrey Regiment officers 43rd Regiment of Foot officers British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne Minster