John Hewett, then curate of Battle, East Sussex and later Vicar of Babbacombe, and his wife, Anna Louisa Lyster Hammon, daughter of Capt.

William Hammon of the East India Company Navy, and the younger brother of Sir John Prescott Hewett.

[3] He went to prep school in Lancing, West Sussex and entered the Royal Navy 1869.

[7] He commanded the torpedo cruiser HMS Racoon on the East Indies Station from 1897 through 1899, when he was promoted to the rank of Captain.

[4] As a captain, he commanded the coast defence Breastwork monitor HMS Magdala, which was then at Bombay.