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{{Short description|Welsh aviator}}
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{{Infobox aviator
|name= Vivian Hewitt
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|birth_date= 1888
|birth_place= [[Grimsby]], [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]]
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|known_for= Second flight from [[Great Britain]] to [[Ireland]], 26 April 1912<ref name=27AApr1912>{{cite news
| title = Aviation: Flight from Holyhead to Dublin – Mr Hewitt descends in the Phoenix Park
| newspaper = Irish Times
| location = Dublin
| date = 27 April 1912
| page = 7
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|license_date= 1 October 1912<ref name=5Oct1912>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200894.html ''Flight Magazine'' 5 October 1912]</ref>
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'''Vivian Vaughan Davies Hewitt''' (1888–1965) was a pioneering Welsh aviator. Born in Grimsby,<ref name=":0" /> he moved to [[Bodfari]], [[Denbighshire]], Wales, his mother's family home, on the death of his father during his childhood.<ref name=BBC/>

On 26 April 1912, Hewitt successfully completed a flight between Holyhead and Dublin, landing in the [[Phoenix Park]]. Interviewed by the press, he expressed the view that [[Damer Leslie Allen]], who had disappeared a few days earlier whilst attempting the same flight, had been insufficiently experienced as an aviator for a task of such difficulty.<ref name=27AApr1912/>

Although widely reported to be the first person to cross the sea from Great Britain to Ireland in an aeroplane, several days earlier,<ref name=BBC/> on 22 April [[Denys Corbett Wilson]] had flown from [[Goodwick]] in [[Pembrokeshire]] to [[Enniscorthy]].<ref name=27Apr1912>{{cite journal
| date = 27 April 1912
| title = Flying the Irish Channel
| journal = Flight Magazine
| volume = IV
| issue = 17
| pages = 379
| publisher = Reed Business Information
| location = London
| url = http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200379.html
| access-date = 2011-06-18
| format = PDF
}}</ref><ref name=27BApr1912>{{cite news
| title = Irish Aviator's Feat: St. George's Channel Crossed
| newspaper = Irish Times
| location = Dublin
| date = 27 April 1912
| page = 23
}}</ref> Nevertheless, the view was expressed at the time that Hewitt's flight was "a more difficult and dangerous feat" than Corbett Wilson's.<ref name=04May1912>{{cite news
| title = Editorial
| newspaper = (Weekly) Irish Times
| location = Dublin
| date = 4 May 1912
| page = 10
}}</ref>

Hewitt was also a keen ornithologist and set up a bird sanctuary at his home of Bryn Aber at [[Cemlyn Bay and lagoon|Cemlyn Bay]], [[Anglesey]], which is now managed by The [[North Wales Wildlife Trust]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/anglesey-home-famous-airman-put-13074857|title=Anglesey home of famous airman put up for auction|last=Wyn-Williams|first=Gareth|date=2017-05-22|work=northwales|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref> He was known as the "world’s greatest private [[Great auk|Great Auk]] collector", as he built up a collection of the skins and eggs of these extinct birds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/captain-vivian-hewitt-lincolnshire-born-aviation-pioneer|title=Captain Vivian Hewitt ~ Lincolnshire Born Aviation Pioneer » Rod Collins|website=www.rodcollins.com|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Birkhead |first=Tim R. |last2=Clugston |first2=David L. |last3=Fuller |first3=Errol |date=April 2023 |title=The dispersal of Vivian Vaughan Davies Hewitt ’ s collection of great auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) eggs |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2023.0837 |journal=Archives of Natural History |language=en |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=191–206 |doi=10.3366/anh.2023.0837 |issn=0260-9541}}</ref> His specimens are now in museums in Cardiff, Birmingham, Los Angeles, and Cincinnati.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Thomas|first1=Jessica E.|last2=Carvalho|first2=Gary R.|last3=Haile|first3=James|last4=Martin|first4=Michael D.|last5=Castruita|first5=Jose A. Samaniego|last6=Niemann|first6=Jonas|last7=Sinding|first7=Mikkel-Holger S.|last8=Sandoval-Velasco|first8=Marcela|last9=Rawlence|first9=Nicolas J.|date=2017-06-15|title=An 'Aukward' Tale: A Genetic Approach to Discover the Whereabouts of the Last Great Auks|journal=Genes|language=en|volume=8|issue=6|pages=164|doi=10.3390/genes8060164|pmid=28617333|pmc=5485528|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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[[Category:1888 births]]
[[Category:1965 deaths]]
[[Category:Welsh aviators]]
[[Category:British aviators]]
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