William Unwin Heygate (12 March 1825 - 2 March 1902) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and Leicestershire politician.

Biography

Heygate was born on 12 March 1825, the second son of Sir William Heygate, 1st Baronet (1782-1844), Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.[1] He was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, where he was awarded a B. A. in 1847 and an M. A. in 1850.[2] He became a pupil at Lincoln's Inn on 6 November 1846 and was called to the bar on 19 November 1850.[1]

After unsuccessfully contesting Bridport in 1857, Heygate entered the Parliament for the Conservative Party from Leicester in 1861, but was defeated in the 1865 General election. He returned briefly as a member from Stamford in a by-election in 1868 (the constituency was abolished later the same year), and was again elected for South Leicestershire in 1870, serving until he stepped down in 1880.[3]

Heygate was a prominent politician in Leicestershire. He was an Alderman of Leicestershire County Council, a Justice of the peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county. In business, he was Chairman of Pare′s Leicestershire Banking Company, a director of the Midland Railway, and of the Canada Company.[3]

Heygate died at the Hotel Burlington, in Dover, 2 March 1902.[3]

Family

Heygate married, Constance Mary Beaumont, daughter of Sir George Beaumont, on 6 July 1852.[4] The couple had four children:[5]

  • William Howley Beaumont Heygate (20 May 1854 – 21 September 1928)
  • Reginald Beaumont Heygate (10 October 1857 – 5 January 1903)[6]
  • Mary Florence Heygate (16 January 1861 – 1 July 1929)
  • Harry Beaumont Heygate (8 Feb 1872 – 20 July 1897)

References

  1. 1 2 Foster, Joseph (1885). "Heygate, William Unwin" . Men-at-the-Bar: A Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court (2nd ed.). London: Hazell, Watson & Viney. p. 215 – via Wikisource.
  2. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888). "Heygate, William Unwin" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Vol. 2. Oxford: Parker. p. 654 – via Wikisource.
  3. 1 2 3 "Obituary - William Unwin Heygate". The Times. No. 36706. London. 4 March 1902. p. 8.
  4. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1883). The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire : for 1882. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 310.
  5. ↑ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol. 2 (107th ed.). Wilmington. p. 1898.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ "Deaths". The Times. No. 36970. London. 6 January 1903. p. 1.
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