Thomas Hewlett Explained

Thomas Hewlett
Office:Member of Parliament
for Manchester Exchange
Predecessor:Peter Eckersley
Successor:Harold Lever
Term Start:21 September 1940
Term End:5 July 1945
Birth Name:Thomas Henry Hewlett
Birth Date:23 November 1882
Party:
  • Conservative Party

Thomas Henry Hewlett (23 November 1882 – 25 May 1956)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician and industrialist.

He unsuccessfully contested the 1935 general election in Manchester Clayton, but after the death in 1940 of Peter Eckersley, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Exchange, Hewlett was elected unopposed in the resulting by-election.[2] He lost the seat in the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1945 general election.

In addition to his political interests, Hewlett was the chairman and managing director of the Anchor Chemical Company[3] which is based in Clayton, Manchester and is now a subsidiary of the Air Products and Chemicals.

His children included Thomas Clyde Hewlett, who became Baron Hewlett of Swettenham in the County of Chester in 1972 and the actor Donald Hewlett.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2) . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231626/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons2.htm . 10 August 2009 . Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. usurped . 2009-05-03.
  2. Book: Craig , F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig . British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 . 1969 . 3rd . 1983 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 0-900178-06-X . 186,187.
  3. News: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 5 November 1935 . 4 . .