John Hewley
Sir John Hewley (1619-1697) was an English magistrate and Member of Parliament, an early Whig.
Life
He was son of John Hewley of Wistow, near Selby. He was admitted to Gray's Inn, 4 February 1638, and became recorder of Doncaster.[1]
He sat in Parliament for Pontefract 1658–60, was knighted at Whitehall Palace on 30 June 1663, and sat for York in 1678, 1679, and 1681. He encouraged literary work, giving monetary support to the production of William Dugdale's Monasticon and Matthew Poole's Synopsis Criticorum.[1]
He kept a presbyterian chaplain, who gathered a public congregation in York, for which a small chapel, cruciform in shape, was built at St. Saviourgate in 1692 (registered 8 April 1693). Now it is York Unitarian Chapel.[1]
Sir John Hewley died at his country residence, Bell Hall, near York, on 24 August 1697, and was buried in St. Saviour's Church, York. He married Sarah Wolrych, who survived him and set up the Lady Hewley Trust.[1]
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"Hewley, Sarah". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Hewley, Sarah". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.