John Hewett (priest)

John Hewett, Vicar of Babbacombe (6 August 1830 – 5 August 1911) was a High Church Anglican priest and founder of the church of All Saints', Babbacombe and a friend and confidant of Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland as well as the priest for Alexandra of Denmark whilst Princess of Wales.

[4] During his time there, the population of Devon was increasing greatly as it became a popular holiday destination, particularly the area around Torquay, including the once small hamlet of Babbacombe was growing rapidly and lacked a church.

George Selby donated the East Window (depicted in the interior image) to the church.

His wife Anna died in 1884 aged 55 and he remarried two years later to a Miss Anne Robson of Sunderland.

Hewett died in Teignmouth on 5 August 1911, his epitaph was In te domine speravi (“In You, O Lord, have I hoped”), a window was erected in All Saints', Babbacombe in his honour.