John Hewlett

During this period, he became acquainted with the young Mary Wollstonecraft, then running her own school at nearby Newington Green.

Hewlett persuaded her to write her first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, and sold the yet-unwritten manuscript to the radical publisher Joseph Johnson.

The privilege was not much used until shortly before its abolition in the mid-nineteenth century when it had degenerated into a system whereby a man could proceed BD without any formal test of his ability.

He was appointed rector of Hilgay, Downham, Norfolk in 1819 and served as professor of belles-lettres (literature) at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

After the death of George Gregory, Hewlett continued publishing a newly edited Bible serially.