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Heton, Martin, 1552-1609
GB-2014-WSA-09151 · Person · 1552-1609

HETON, MARTIN, son of George Heton, Heton Hall, Dean, Lancashire, and Joanna, dau. of Sir Martin Bowes, Kt, Master Worker of the Mint, Lord Mayor of London, goldsmith; b. 1552; adm.; QS in 1567; a copy of congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth, written by him in 1569, is printed in The Trifler 7 May 1817 (but assigning him the incorrect Christian name Matthew); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1571, Westminster Student; BA 1574; MA 1578 (incorp. Cambridge 1581); BD 1583; DD 1585; ordained; Canon of Christ Church Dec 1582 – res by 19 Dec 1589; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1585; Dean of Winchester 20 Mar 1588/9 – Feb 1600; incumbent, Houghton, Hampshire 23 Sep 1590; consecrated Bishop of Ely 3 Feb 1598/9, having accepted the post on condition of alienating to the Crown the richest manors of the see; his able and learned sermons won the praise of James I, who declared that while “fat men were wont to make lean sermons, his were not lean, but larded with much good learning”; m.; d. 14 Jul 1609. DNB.

Hewes, ---, fl. 1570
GB-2014-WSA-09154 · Person · fl. 1570

HEWES, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1568-70 (Chapter Muniments 54017-8, 54021).

GB-2014-WSA-09155 · Person · fl. ca. 1626

HEWET, BENJAMIN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627; BA 1630/1.

Hewet, Gilbert, fl. 1672
GB-2014-WSA-09156 · Person · fl. 1672

HEWET, GILBERT; b.; adm.; KS 1672; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1675, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1675, scholar 1676, matr. 1676; BA 1678/9; MA 1682; ordained deacon 4 Mar 1682, priest 23 Sep 1683 (both Winchester); Curate of West Molesey, Surrey 1682; Rector of Swarraton, Hampshire, and Perpetual Curate of Northington, Hampshire, by 1686 – still 1708 (no longer 1717).

GB-2014-WSA-09170 · Person · ca. 1744-1766

HEWITT, WILLIAM, son of William Hewitt, London; b.; in school list 1752; KS (aged 14) 1758. [Presumably William Hewitt, son of William Hewitt and Jane ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 15 Dec 1743 (IGI); his parents were doubtless William Hewitt, Cavendish Square, London, surgeon, and Jane, sister of Wright Morrice (qv)] [possibly William Hewett Hewitt, Surgeon and Ensign, 28th Foot, will proved PCC 22 Dec 1766, will made at Charleston, South Carolina]

GB-2014-WSA-09171 · Person · 1926-1989

Hewitt-Jones, David Anthony, son of Walter Hewitt-Jones, med. practitioner, of Pett Level, Sussex, and Ada Mary Dorothea, d. of Albert Vinson of Belvedere, Kent; b. 27 Jan. 1926; adm. Sept. 1938 (KS); left July 1943; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA MA 1955; RN (Sp) 1944-7 (PO Writer); dir. of Music Dean Close Junior Sch., Cheltenham, 1953-7; ARCO 1957; asst. music adviser Gloucs CC 1958-77; conductor Gloucs Youth Orchestra 1960-76, Stroud Choral Soc. 1968-77; a freelance accompanist, composer and conductor 1977-; m. 24 July 1950 Anita Lawson ARCM, music teacher, d. of Herbert Birrell Lawson, HM Inspector of Schools; d. 4 Oct. 1989.

Heygate, ---, fl. 1640
GB-2014-WSA-019202 · Person · fl. 1640

HEYGATE, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Chapter Muniments 43114).

GB-2014-WSA-09178 · Person · fl. ca. 1640

HEYLIN, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1644, but was never adm.

Heylin, Thomas, ca. 1649-?
GB-2014-WSA-09179 · Person · ca. 1649-?

HEYLIN, THOMAS, son of Rev. Peter Heylin DD, Prebendary and Sub-Dean of Westminster, and Laetitia, third dau. of Thomas Heygate, Hayes, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1661; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1662, matr. 19 Jul 1662, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1662 – void 1697; BA 1666; MA 1669; ordained; “went a parson to Nevis”, but had returned to England by 1678; living Oxford 1683.

Heylyn, John, 1685-1759
GB-2014-WSA-09180 · Person · 1685-1759

HEYLYN, JOHN, eldest son of John Heylyn, London, citizen and saddler, and Susanna, sister of Thomas Sherman, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Aug 1685 (IGI); adm.; KS 1700; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1705, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1705, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1706, matr. 1706; BA 1708/9; MA 1714; DD 1728; ordained priest (London) 18 Dec 1709; Vicar of Haslingfield, Cambs., 1714-9; Rector of St. Mary Le Strand, London, from 1 Jan 1723/4; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 11 Oct 1736; Prebendary of Westminster from 21 Mar 1742/3; Vicar of Sunbury, Middlesex 10 Feb 1741/2-7; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II (occurs 1748, not 1751); known as the “Mystic Doctor”; author, Theological Lectures to the King’s Scholars at Westminster Abbey, 1749; valediction in Harl. MS. 9576, British Library; m. 1st, by c. 1712; m. 2nd, by c. 1722 Elizabeth Ebbutt, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; d. 11 Aug 1759. Buried South Transept, Westminster Abbey. DNB.