William Heysham 1691-1727
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William HEYSHAM 1691-1727
Biographical Note
Son of William Heysham of Lancaster, MP and Barbados merchant. Matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford 1709, but did not graduate; admitted at the Middle Temple 1709. MP for Lancaster, 1716-27; he acquired an estate at East Greenwich, Kent.
Books
Heysham used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 14660). The extent of his library is not known; in his will, he left his books to his friend John Marshall (having only a daughter and no male heir).
Sources
- Will of William Heysham, The National Archives PROB 11/615/403.
- History of Parliament.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.