Charles Hyett
{{Short description|English politician}}
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Charles Hyett (1677{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/hyett-charles-1677-1738 |title=HYETT, Charles (1677–1738), of Painswick House, nr. Gloucester, Glos. |publisher=History of Parliament Online |date= |access-date=20 March 2024}} – 1738), of Painswick House, near Gloucester, Gloucestershire, was an English politician.
He was born 10 April 1677, the eldest son of Benjamin Hyett (d. 1711), an attorney and clerk of the peace for Gloucestershire. His father held a lease on Marybone House in the south-west corner of Gloucester from the city council, close to the castle, which Charles in due course inherited{{cite journal|title=Archaeology and the Rococo Garden: The Restoration at Painswick House, Gloucestershire|first=Robert D.|last=Bell|journal=Garden History|volume=21|date=1993|pages=24–45|doi=10.2307/1587052 |jstor=1587052 }} and extended.{{cite journal|title=Two Eighteenth-Century Gloucester Gardens|first=Margaret|last=Richards|journal=Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society|volume=99|year=1982|pages=123–6}}
Hyett married Anna (d. 1728), daughter of Nicholas Webb, an alderman of Gloucester in 1707. They had two sons Benjamin and Nicholas.{{cite book|title=An Original History of the City of Gloucester|first=Thomas Dudley|last=Fosbrooke|date=1819|page=136}}
In 1705 he was appointed as chapter clerk and as bailiff and rent collector for Gloucester.{{cite book|title=No Fine But A Glass of Wine|first=Suzanne|last=Eward|date=1985|page=212}} In 1715 he was appointed constable of Gloucester cathedral, thereby acquiring a lease of the Crown land adjoining his house to extend his garden
He was returned unopposed as a Tory Member (MP) for Gloucester in 1722.
He purchased an estate in Painswick in 1733, where he built a gentleman's residence.{{cite web|title=VCH Gloucestershire Volume 11: Painswick: Manors and other estates|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol11/pp65-70|access-date=20 March 2024}} He may also have been responsible for the Pigeon House in the Painswick Rococo Garden, developed by his son Benjamin, which appears to date from this period. He also purchased Hunt's Court in the hamlet of Bentham, Badgeworth, Gloucestershire.{{cite book|title=A New History of Gloucestershire|first=Samuel|last=Rudder|date=1779|page=251}}
He was buried in the family vault in Gloucester cathedral.