Sir Francis Adams Hyett (1844–1941) was chairman of Gloucestershire County Council from 1918 to 1920.
Early life and family Francis Hyett was born in Painswick House in 1844, the son of William Henry Hyett.Gray, Irvine. (1981) Antiquaries of Gloucestershire and Bristol. Bristol: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. pp. 127-128. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1864, graduating B.A. in 1868. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1872, and worked as a conveyancer.
Career Hyett was a co-founder of the Marling School in Stroud.The history of the school. Marling School. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
Hyett was chairman of Gloucestershire County Council from 1918 to 1920.
From 1895 to 1937, he served as chairman of Barnwood House Hospital, a private Mental Asylum in the outskirts of Gloucester. His Father was instrumental in the founding of the hospital in Barnwood and was its first chairman.Gloucestershire Archives D3725/ Gale- "Barnwood House Condensed"
Death and legacy Hyett died in 1941. His portrait by Hugh Goldwin Riviere is in Gloucester Shire Hall.Sir Francis Adams Hyett. Art UK. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
Selected publications Gloucester and her Governor during the Great Civil War. A lecture, etc. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1891. The Civil War in the Forest of Dean, 1643-1645. 1895. The Painswick Annual Register. Jan. 1890-Dec. 1899. A decade of parochial history. Gloucester, 1900. (compiler) Florence. Her History and Art to the Fall of the Republic. Methuen, London, 1903. An Octet of Sonnets by F. A. H. With Christmas Greetings from the Author. Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, 1905. Gloucester in National History. John Bellows, Gloucester; Kegan Paul & Co., London; 1906."Some books of the week". The Spectator, 29 December 1906, p. 1085. Chattertoniana, Being a Classified Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Magazine Articles, & Other Printed Matter Relating to the Life or Works of Chatterton, or to the Rowley Controversy. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1914. (With William Bazeley) Glimpses of the History of Painswick, with a Bibliography of its Literature. John Bellows, Gloucester, 1928.
References
Further reading Austin, Roland. (1949?) Catalogue of Gloucestershire books collected by Sir Francis Hyett of Painswick and placed in the Shire Hall. Gloucester.