Arms, Armour and Militaria

The Hewetson Family, a large collection of commissions, covenants and related documents to four generations of the family. George, a Surgeon in the Royal Navy and the HEIC Madras Establishment, died at Vellore in 1824 (evidence also of him being a prisoner of war c1800 while serving with the Anglo Russian Forces against the French; his son Charles HEIC and the British Army, rises to Lieutenant-General, died in 1873, buried in Madras, mention of Capt GH Hewetson and also details of his? son another ‘GH’, a stage manager who died in 1940; together with two boxed fragments from the tent lining of King Theodore, Abyssinia 1868, these with signed and witnessed statements as to their authenticity, a most interesting compilation, inspection imperative, some of the early documents with taped repairs (a parcel) £100-150