Viscount Hewart

Viscount Hewart, of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for Gordon Hewart, 1st Baron Hewart, on his retirement as Lord Chief Justice.^[1] He had already been created Baron Hewart, of Bury in the County of Lancaster, in 1922, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.^[2] He was educated at Bury Grammar School. The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, in 1964.

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart.

Viscounts Hewart (1940)

• Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart (1870–1943)
• Hugh Vaughan Hewart, 2nd Viscount Hewart (1896–1964)

Coat of arms of Viscount Hewart

Crest In front of the trunk of a tree sprouting thereon an owl Proper three crosses patée fesswise Or. Escutcheon Argent on a fess Sable between two owls Proper in chief and in base a cross patée of the second a fasces Or. Supporters On either side an owl Proper charged with a fasces erect Or. Motto Nulla Retrorsum.[3]