Henry Gay Hewlett

Henry Gay Hewlett (4 april 1832 – 25 February 1897) was a British civil servant, poet, editor, essayist and historian.

Biography

He was appointed in 1865 to be Keeper of the Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, which post he held until 1896, when he resigned on account of ill-health, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Maurice Henry Hewlett. He was the author of The Heroes of Europe (1864), and other works, including three volumes of poems entitled Shakespeare's Curse, A Sheaf of Verse, and A Wayfarer's Wallet. He was the friend and literary executor of Henry Chorley, the musical critic of the Athenæum, of whom he published a memoir and an edition of his letters. Hewlett had many literary friends, of whom may be mentioned Charles Dickens, George Grote, Barry Cornwall, Tennyson, and James Knowles, who brother-in-law he was.

External links

• Works by Henry Gay Hewlett at The Online Books Page