Author: Hewlett, Alfred
Biography:
HEWLETT, Alfred (1804-85: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 24 Apr. 1804 and baptised on 27 Apr. at St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, the second of eleven children of William Hewlett, a plasterer and labourer, albeit later styled “Gentleman,” and his wife Elizabeth Griffith Meredith (Elizabeth Hewlett, q.v.), who had married in Berkshire in 1803. He ran a Classical and Commercial Academy in St. Aldgate’s, Oxford, prior to his entry to Magdalen Hall, Oxford (matric. Nov. 1827, BA 1831, MA 1837, DD 1865). (In 1851 his mother was listed as a Governess at the British School in Oxford so she may have earlier worked at the Academy.) He married Catherine Ann Gibson (1805-82) at St. Giles, Oxford, on 12 July 1827. They went on to have at least ten children, many of whom survived into the twentieth century. He was ordained deacon (1831) and priest (1833) and was Curate then Vicar of St. Stephen’s, Astley, Manchester (1831-40, 1840-85). He died at Astley vicarage on10 June 1885, leaving an estate of just over £2000 to his children. In addition to his undergraduate poems listed here, he edited the Christian Cottager’s Magazine(1845-51) and produced Anti-Millenarian Lectures (1854) along with the usual array of occasional sermons. (ancestry.co.uk 9 May 2022; findmypast.co.uk 9 May 2022; OUCH 1 July 1826, 14 July 1827; LES 28 June 1882, 20 June 1885; Alan Simpson, OFHS) AA