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John Hewitt (Dean of Cloyne)

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The Hon. John Pratt Hewitt, M.A. (16 December 1755 – 13 May 1804) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[1]

The fourth son of James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford, he matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1773, graduating B.A. in 1776. He then took an M.A. at [[Trinity College, Dublin in 1778.[2] He was Dean of Cloyne from 1779 until his death.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ ""Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Brady, W.M. P205: London; Longmans; 1864
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Hewitt, John (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p312 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878