John Hewley

Sir John Hewley (1619–1697) was an English magistrate and Member of Parliament for Pontefract, an early Whig.

He encouraged literary work, giving monetary support to the production of William Dugdale's Monasticon and Matthew Poole's Synopsis Criticorum.

[2] He kept a presbyterian chaplain, who gathered a public congregation in York, for which a small chapel, cruciform in shape, was built at St Saviourgate in 1692 (registered 8 April 1693).

He married Sarah Wolrych, who survived him and set up the Lady Hewley Trust.

[2] She was buried alongside Sir John under the sanctuary steps in St Saviour's.