Thomas Hewlett

For his son, the British industrialist, see Thomas Hewlett, Baron Hewlett.
Thomas Hewlett
Member of Parliament
for Manchester Exchange
In office
21 September 1940 – 5 July 1945
Preceded byPeter Eckersley
Succeeded byHarold Lever
Personal details
Born
Thomas Henry Hewlett

(1882-11-23)23 November 1882
Political 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.[2]

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.

  1. ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 186,187. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  3. ^ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. British Newspaper Archive. 5 November 1935. p. 4. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) (subscription required)