Francis Hyett

Francis Hyett by Hugh Goldwin Riviere. Oil on canvas, 1927. Gloucester Shire Hall.[1]

Sir Francis Adams Hyett (1844–1941) was chairman of Gloucestershire County Council from 1918 to 1920. A portrait of Hyett by Hugh Goldwin Riviere is in Gloucester Shire Hall.[1]

Hyett was a co-founder of the Marling School in Stroud.[2]

Selected publications

  • Gloucester and her Governor during the Great Civil War. A lecture, etc. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1891.
  • The Civil War in the Forest of Dean, 1643-1645. 1895.
  • The Painswick Annual Register. Jan. 1890-Dec. 1899. A decade of parochial history. Gloucester, 1900. (compiler)
  • Florence. Her history and art to the fall of the Republic. Methuen, London, 1903.
  • An octet of sonnets by F. A. H. With Christmas greetings from the author. Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, 1905.
  • Gloucester in national history. John Bellows, Gloucester; Kegan Paul & Co., London; 1906.[3]
  • Chattertoniana, being a classified catalogue of books, pamphlets, magazine articles, & other printed matter relating to the life or works of Chatterton, or to the Rowley controversy. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1914. (With William Bazeley)
  • Glimpses of the history of Painswick, with a bibliography of its literature. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1928.

References

  1. 1 2 Sir Francis Adams Hyett. Art UK. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  2. ↑ The history of the school. Marling School. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Some books of the week". The Spectator, 29 December 1906, p. 1085.

Further reading

  • Austin, Roland. (1949?) Catalogue of Gloucestershire books collected by Sir Francis Hyett of Painswick and placed in the Shire Hall. Gloucester.

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