Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet
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Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet (11 June 1750 – 21 March 1840) was a
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general who was
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and then
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Military career

Educated at
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and the
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, Hewett was commissioned into the 70th Regiment of Foot 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 (serving there until 1799). He 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
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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
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in 1813. He was created a Baronet, of Nether Seale in the County of Leicester, on 6 November 1813. 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 and Lieutenant-Colonel
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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