Researching Eric Hewitt
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The name Eric means "ever-powerful" and is of Scandinavian origin.
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Eric Hewitt
Eric Joseph Hewitt (19 December 1935 – 2008) was an English first-class cricketer who played in one match for Warwickshire in 1954 and in another single game for the Combined Services in 1957. He was born in Erdington, Birmingham; the exact date and the place of his death are not known.
A right-handed lower order batsman and a right-arm leg-break and googly bowler, Hewitt scored 40 in his only Warwickshire innings and also took his only first-class wicket in his solitary game for the county, against Oxford University in 1954. For the Combined Services against Warwickshire in 1957, he batted in the middle order but did not bowl. He played fairly regularly for Warwickshire's second eleven in the 1958 Minor Counties Championship, but was only intermittently successful as a bowler and not at all as a batsman.
Source: Eric Hewitt, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaEric John Hewitt
Eric John Hewitt FRS (27 February 1919–01 January 2002) was a British plant physiologist. He is commonly known for compiling and publishing the Long Ashton Nutrient Solution.
Hewitt was educated at Whitgift School, graduated with a first-class BSc in botany and chemistry from King's College London, and completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 1948. Hewitt's laboratory at Long Ashton Research Station openend in 1956. He was a Reader in Plant Physiology at the University of Bristol from 1967 to 1984.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.
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