Thomas Henry Hewlett (23 November 1882 – 25 May 1956) 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. 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 which is based in Clayton,

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

and is now a subsidiary of the

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

Donald Hewlett Donald Marland Hewlett (30 August 1920 – 4 June 2011) was an English actor who was best known for his sitcom roles as Colonel Charles Reynolds in ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum'' and Lord Meldrum in '' You Rang, M'Lord?'', both written by Jimmy Perry ...

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* 1882 births 1956 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 20th-century English businesspeople {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub