Background
HEWETT, Jolin Prescott was born on August 25, 1854 in Barham,Kent. Son of Reverend John Hewett and Anna Louisa Lyster, daughter of Captain Hammon.
HEWETT, Jolin Prescott was born on August 25, 1854 in Barham,Kent. Son of Reverend John Hewett and Anna Louisa Lyster, daughter of Captain Hammon.
Winchester; Balliol College Oxford.
Joined Bengal Civil Service, 1877. Served in North - Western Provinces and Oudh, 1877-1886. Under Secretary to Government of India in the Home Department, 1886.
Acted Private Secretary to Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India, 1888, 1890. Deputy-Secretary to Government of India in Home Department, December 1890. Magistrate and Collector in NorthWestern Provinces, 1893.
Secretary to Royal Commission on Opium, 1893. Member of the Indian Plague Commission, November 1898. Secretary to Government of India, Home Department, 1894-1902.
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, 1902. Ordinary Member of GovernorGeneral’s Council, India, in charge of Department of Commerce and Industry, 1904. Lieutenant - Governor, United Provinces of Agra and Oudli, since 1907.
Club: Arthur’s.
Spouse 1879, Ethel Charlotte, 2nddaughter of Henry Binny Webster, B.C.S.