Samuel Heywood (chief justice)

Samuel Heywood
Personal details
Born 8 October 1753(1753-10-08)
Liverpool, Lancashire
Died 11 September 1828(1828-09-11) (aged 74)
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Susannah Cornwall
Children Phoebe Augusta Heywood
Edward Heywood
Susannah Maria Heywood
Sophia Heywood
Anne Heywood
Mary Isabella Heywood
Alma mater Warrington Academy
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupation Serjeant-at-law,
Chief Justice of the Carmarthen Circuit of Wales
Religion Unitarian

Samuel Heywood (1753–1828) was a Serjeant-at-law and a Chief Justice of the Carmarthen Circuit of Wales.

Heywood was born in Liverpool, Lancashire to Benjamin and Phoebe Heywood, née Ogden. He was educated at Warrington Academy, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, though as a Unitarian did not attend college chapel, and could not graduate as he would not subscribe to the Church of England's 39 Articles.[1] He studied law at the Inner Temple, rising to prominence as a lawyer and barrister. He was called to the Bar in 1778. Based at Lancaster, Lancashire, he was appointed Serjeant-at-Law (1795) and also Chief Justice of the Carmarthen Circuit of Wales (1807). He was one of very few religious dissenters holding a national public office at this time. He was a fierce opponent of the high church aspects of Anglicanism.

Publications

Family

He married Susannah Cornwall (d. 19 January 1822) on 1 January 1781 at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London. They had at least one son and five daughters:

  1. Phoebe Augusta Heywood (1 December 1781 - 12 June 1832)
  2. Edward Heywood (bapt 14 December 1782)
  3. Susannah Maria Heywood (bapt 13 Feb 1784)
  4. Sophia Heywood (bapt 16 March 1785)
  5. Anne Heywood (24 May 1791 – 17 October 1857), who married 6 January 1815 to Lieutenant-General William Granville Eliot, a son of Francis Perceval Eliot.
  6. Mary Isabella Heywood (bapt 16 January 1795)

References

  1. ^ G. M. Ditchfield, ‘Heywood, Samuel (1753–1828)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 29 Dec 2008. Heywood is not mentioned at all in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses.