Nicholas Hyett

[4] In 1765 he was granted by letters patent the office of keeper and constable of the Castle of Gloucester by King George III.

[5][6] By that time the office was largely honorary as the castle had long since been reduced just to a keep which was used as a gaol.

[1] Nicholas Hyett stood as a Tory for the parliamentary constituency of Gloucester unsuccessfully in 1734.

[7] Hyett was probably responsible for the current façade of Hyatt House, a grade II listed building in Westgate Street, Gloucester.

[8][9] Hyett married a widow, Henrietta Maria Holker (née James), by whom he had a son Benjamin,[10] who was appointed a freeman of Gloucester in 1762.

Gloucester Castle keep in use as part of the county gaol in the 18th century. (A later work said to be based on an 1819 original)