Later Life
Hezlet returned to his family home, Bovagh House, at Aghadowey in County Londonderry. He was Northern Ireland president of the Royal British Legion for 25 years. He also served with the RNLI, a member of the general synod of the Church of Ireland, and was an original council member of the University of Ulster. He was a keen yachtsman, and his yacht Agivey was a familiar sight on the coast of Ireland and Scotland. He was appointed High Sheriff of County Londonderry for 1968.
Hezlet died at Bovagh, at the age of 93, in 2007. He was survived by his wife, Anne Joan Patricia Clark whom he married in 1948, and their two daughters.
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