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This solicitor was coroner for Coventry. In 1834 he was a trustee of Edwards' Charity (see PA101/143/2), in 1838 the assignee of the mortgage for the premises on which Broad Street Wesleyan Chapel, Foleshill was built (see PA101/152) and in 1842 trustee of the purchase by Joseph Bates of the site of 7/8 St. Peter's Street (see PA379/1). See PA328/7. His firm is found especially at series 2 of PA101. He died on 9 Oct 1852 (see PA101/12/177). He was Clerk to Foleshill Board of Guardians in 1843 (see PA295/40/83). See PA206/4/1. See PA202/10/14,22; PA202/11/4; PA242/7/13; PA242/9/21-22. Having begun as Edward Inge's clerk (see PA101/1/279), Dewes was one of his executors (see PA242/2/1.XVII et seq: PA56/12/13; PA56/139/14). He bought a croft at Great Heath in about 1826 - see PA221/2/18-19. See PA221/3/71-81 passim; PA221/4/10. See PA208/12: PA152/72: PA14/4/36; PA14/5/9,31-85; PA14/8/22; PA14/10/3 et passim. See PA17/76 for his duties as undersheriff at the time of the 1832 general election. He was appointee for a Courthouse Green messuage, 1836 (see PA242/6/3). See PA184/3/8; PA184/4/1; PA184/9/4-5 (in the last he acts as trustee for the purchase by George Pickard of "Brickkiln Close", Longford, 1837). He was a West Orchard Chapel trustee from 1833 (see CCA/2/3/168/28-29: PA221/1/10) and interested in its estate the previous year (CCA/2/3/168/39-41). He was trustee for William Robinson's purchase and a sale of part of Harnall Fields, 1827-40 (see PA213/1/14). Mortgage assignee for John Carter's Pinley House, 1809-10, 1815-35 (see PA216/1/1-3,5,19-20). He was an executor of Joseph Whiting of Foleshill, 1834ff (PA216/1/16, 17, 19-20). He was an executor of Jeremiah Goodall, 1826 (see BA/A/B/28/6: BA/B/P/389/5), having been a trustee for Goodall's purchase of a stable in the New Buildings estate, 1816-20 (BA/A/G/32/2). As Inge's executor see BA/D/A/47/20,21,23-25,50.X,XI. He was a trustee for the mortgage by Samuel Masters of Earl Street premises, 1810 (see BA/A/G/6/1.XV; BA/A/G/10/3,5,6) and mortgage assignee for premises on the corner of West Orchard and Cross Cheaping, 1833-43 (BA/A/G/26/69-72), and for land of William Hitchins at Whitley, 1838 (BA/D/A/47/46. XXIV, XXV). He acted as an attorney to deliver seisin - see BA/B/P/398/3: PA491/27/16. He was trustee for the use by Richard Hands of Burges premises as a dyeworks, 1840 (PA436/3/13) and of other land there, 1851 (PA436/3/16). He was mortgage assignee for Foleshill land, 1833-46 (see PA436/6/25-27). PA440/3/2; PA440/6/28,29: PA1681/53/1; PA1681/66/14 are married women's certificates which he processed. He was mortgage assignee for Warwick Court, Gosford Street, 1808-10 (see PA440/6/11-15 passim). He acted for the ribbon manufacturer William Robinson junior when he bought Hill Cross property in 1834 - see P454/1/15. He was at Little Park Street premises in 1830. As executor of Jeremiah Goodall, see PA54/190/10. As executor of Edward Reynolds (q.v.), see CCA/2/3/179/49: PA500/42/1. See PA560/17: PA55/11: PA56/78/5; PA56/111/5. He was named an executor in the 1834 will of Thomas Pepper (PA55/21/20) and was an executor of William Gater (q.v.) in 1832 (see PA55/72/2). With his partner John Carter (q.v.), Dewes was involved in sale of the "Unicorn" and other Cross Cheaping property, 1831 (CCA/2/3/179/34-35,48: PA1681/27/1.LIX,LX). He acquired Harnall land and three messuages near St. Michael's in 1848 (PA56/48/5). For the firm, see PA56/65/2,4; PA56/80/43-48,51; PA56/86/7-17 passim; PA56/140/14. Richard, Thomas and Henry Dewes were mortgagees for Conduit Meadow, Coundon, 1846-52 (PA56/80/44,52). Mortgage-assignee for Much Park Street premises, 1809 (CCA/2/3/312/4-6: PA56/86/1.XIV); for Smithford Street houses, 1840 (PA56/117/13-14). An executor of the ironmonger Edward Reynolds, 1832 (PA56/92/36: CCA/2/3/814/12-13). He was trustee for the weaver Richard Stafford (q.v.)'s purchase of land near Swanswell, 1841 (PA56/94/2). Dewes was involved with the reform of the city's charities in 1836 - see PA56/127/1.XII. Trustee for sale of Spon Street property, 1814 (PA56/141/33-34). Mortgage-trustee for Far Gosford Street and Robinson's Row houses, 1848 - see PA491/18/20.III. Richard Dewes was trustee for his son Henry (q.v.)'s further charge upon Edgwick premises in 1844 (PA491/20/20.XXXIX). In 1828 Dewes was trustee for the ribbon-manufacturer George Elliott (qv.)'s purchase of Lockhurst Lane premises (see PA491/21/4-5); in 1831 for the weaver Henry Hewitt's of Longford property (PA491/55/11-12); in 1851 for the grocer Richard Masser (q.v.)'s of Foxford houses and a close (PA491/56/2.IV). As a trustee of Maria Morris' marriage-settlement, 1823, see PA491/31/21. See PA491/55/15; PA491/56/5; PA491/81/5.VII; PA491/86/3; PA491/93/2. He was mortgagee for Enoch Moore's Longford land, 1844-47 (PA491/56/2.I,II). Mortgage-assignee for a Spon Causeway garden, 1825-26 (PA491/78/1). As trustee of John Taylor Ryley (q.v.) when that man obtained a Spon Street garden for which his father John (q.v.) had been a trustee, see PA491/78/5.X (1843). As trustee for Great Heath properties, 1813-26, see PA491/95/13-14,16,19-20. See PA2398/6/2/21/2. Dewes was in 1843 acting as a clerk to the income tax commissioners (PA849/5/5). He was trustee for William Howard Mercer (q.v.)'s purchase of Spon Street property (1848 - PA849/13/16). See PA849/25/1-2; PA849/27/11. As mortgage-assignee for Butcher Row property, 1807-09, and trustee for a share therein, 1823-29, see CCA2/3/129/42.XVII,XXVI,XXVII. As trustee of Catherine Millward's marriage-settlement and executor of her will, see CCA/2/3/451/33: PA101/8/689,690. Dewes was a mortgagee of Stoke Court, Gosford Street from 1842 - see CCA/2/3/757/17,19. See CCA/2/3/281/22; CCA/2/3/757/21. CCA/2/3/226/12 shows that in 1851 Dewes was trustee for the winemerchant John Whittem (q.v.)'s purchase of the Mill in the Hole estate, Whitley. Mortgagee of the "Bell", etc., Greyfriars' Lane and Warwick Lane, 1846-48 (see CCA/2/3/472/27-31 passim). As solicitor to the street commissioners, 1823, see CCA/2/3/233/12. Dewes was trustee for the auctioneer Thomas Grimes (q.v.)' Smithford Street and Market Street property, 1816 - see CCA/2/3/167/33-40 passim; and for the winemerchant John Whittem (q.v.)'s purchase of Swift's Mill, 1851 - see CCA/2/3/237/23. For his interest in the Bootes' Cross Cheaping/Women's Market Place messuages, 1812, see CCA/2/3/175/1; CCA/2/3/180/28,32-33. For the firm in his time, see CCA/2/3/140/24,26; CCA/2/3/211/71; CCA/2/3/223/6; CCA/2/3/497/9. As a commissioner to hear married women's acknowledgement of deeds, see CCA/2/3/25; CCA/2/3/148/6; CCA/2/3/242/13; CCA/2/3/276/16,27; CCA/2/3/313/21; CCA/2/3/423/34; CCA/2/3/469/31(attachment); CCA/2/3/573/79; CCA/2/3/782/25. Dewes was trustee for his father-in-law Jeremiah Goodall(q.v.)'s acquisition of Spon Bridge and Well Street property in 1817 and his executor from 1826 (see CCA/2/3/19/34-35,38). CCA/2/3/19/47 lists the ten of Dewes' children who survived to adulthood. For Dewes' involvement with the Ryley family, see CCA/2/3/276/24,28. See PA2529/1/19. As mortgage-assignee for Spon Street tenements, 1842-44, see CCA/2/3/814/15,16. Richard Dewes acted in 1835 as an executor of John Gater(q.v.) who had made his will in 1821 and of Joseph Whiting(q.v.) who had done so in 1831 (see PA2816/4/8). As mortgage-assignee for Joseph Douglas(q.v.)' Cross Cheaping and Bancroft Lane premises, 1833-49, see PA811/1/36; PA811/2/36.III,VII. For the firm in his time, see PA811/2/29. Trustee for Thomas Welton(q.v.)'s purchase of Lucas Court houses in 1825 (PA811/3/17-18). Through his wife Kitty, Dewes owned a Much Park Street house in 1836 (see CCA/2/3/128/35(b)). He was trustee for Jonathan Keene's purchase of some of that man's namesake father's West Orchard property in 1852 - see CCA/2/3/128/40. See CCA/2/3/4/22; CCA/2/3/446/15-16,30; CCA/2/3/914/12. As mortgagee for William Berry(q.v.)'s Little Park Street messuages, 1818-38, see CCA/2/3/185/16-22 passim; for John Cox' and John Storer's Longford messuages and shops, 1840-52, see CCA/2/3/573/42,44,46. As briefly mortgage-assignee for Harnall land in 1810 and a trustee from 1814, see PA704/3/1.I. He was trustee for a tollgate keeper's purchase of Gosford Street property in 1844 - see PA1508/4/10; for a gardener's purchase of Much Park Street property, 1847- see CCA/2/3/942/12; for an ironmonger's purchase of Greyfriars' Lane property, 1852 - see PA2433/3/52. For Dewes' involvement in the resale of land not needed to lay down Hertford Street, 1815, see CCA/2/3/458/20.I. As trustee to prevent dower from a Spon Street messuage, 1822-31, see CCA/2/3/109/20,21,30.