Harald George Hewett

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Sir Harald George Hewett, 4th Baronet (also Harold George Hewett , born October 24, 1858 in Aldeburgh , Suffolk , † March 5, 1949 ), was a British painter and officer in the British Army .

Life

Hewett, sixth child and eldest son from the first marriage of Sir George John Routledge Hewett, 3rd Baronet (1818–1876) with Clara von Pochhammer (1830–1867), a daughter of the Prussian lieutenant general and novelist Wilhelm von Pochhammer , studied in the From 1874 to 1876 painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein his teachers. When his father died on April 15, 1876, Hewett succeeded him as the 4th Baronet , of Nether Seale in the County of Leicester . This British title of nobility was on November 6, 1813 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom of George III. for his great-grandfather George Hewett (1750-1840), a British general and commander in chief in Ireland .

Hewett has explored a military career that made him the rank of captain (Captain) and honors majors (Honorary Major) of the Edinburgh Royal Garrison Artillery Militia transported. Hewett was a supporter of the British Sea-Anglers' Society, founded in 1893 .

Marriages and offspring

In his first marriage he was married to Emma Pope († 1889) from 1887. With her he had two daughters. In his second marriage, he married Eleanor Margaret Studdy in 1892, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

When he died in 1949, his second marriage son, John George Hewett (1895–1990), inherited his title of nobility.

literature

  • Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . 107th edition, Wilmington / Delaware 2003, Volume 2, p. 1896.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Walford: The County families of the United Kingdom . R. Hardwicke, 1869, p. 486 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich Wilhelm von Pochhammer . In: Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility . Volume I, Berlin 1892. p. 459
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432
  4. ↑ See nos. 5537 and 5538 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  5. ^ Martin Polley (Ed.): The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914 . Routledge, London 2004, p. 419 [135] ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Hewett, Harald George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hewett, Harold George; Hewett, Sir Harald George, 4th Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and officer in the British Army
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldeburgh , Suffolk
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1949