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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.