Thomas Hewet

Sir Thomas Hewet or Hewett FRS (9 September c. 1656/1658 – 9 April 1726) was an English architect, surveyor and landowner. Life Origins and education Thomas was the son of William Hewet of Shireoaks Hall, Nottinghamshire, and his wife Mary, second daughter of Sir Richard Prynce the younger (1598–1665) of Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury. William, his father, died at about the same time as his grandfather, Sir Thomas Hewett of Shireoaks Hall, who died in 1660. Thomas, therefore, became the heir to his father's estate, including Shireoaks, at four years of age, but had to await his full majority before coming into possession of it. Meanwhile, he was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1676 and studying for about four years.