Thomas Hewlett, Baron Hewlett

Thomas Clyde Hewlett, Baron Hewlett, CBE (4 August 1923 – 2 July 1979) was a British industrialist and life peer.

He was educated at Clifton College, before serving with the Royal Marines during World War II.

[1] After the war he attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Union, defeating Peter Shore in the election, and chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.

Hewlett joined Anchor Chemical, the family business, in 1950, becoming a managing director in 1961 and its chairman in 1971.

Having been appointed CBE in 1959 and knighted in 1964, on 26 April 1972 Hewlett was created Baron Hewlett, of Swettenham in the County of Chester.