Hugh Heywood

Hugh Christopher Lemprière Heywood^[1] (5 November 1896 – 8 May 1987) was an eminent Anglican priest^[2] and author^[3] in the mid 20th century.

Heywood was born on the 5th of November, 1896^[4] to Lt.-Col. Charles Christopher Heywood and the former Mildred Ella Lemprière.^[5] He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge. After World War I service with the Manchester Regiment^[6] He transferred to the Indian Army in 1917 and was attached to the 74th Punjabis. He served as a staff captain from 1919 until 1922. During his service, he was mentioned in dispatches and wounded.^[7] He retired in January 1923. He then returned to England, studied at Cambridge University and was ordained at Ely in 1926.^[8] He held curacies at St Andrew’s the Great, Cambridge and Holy Cross, Greenford after which he was a Fellow, Tutor and Dean at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge until 1945. From then until 1969 he was Provost of Southwell Minster.^[9] He spent the remaining years of his life as Vicar of Upton, Nottinghamshire.

He died on 8 May 1987.^[10] He had married Margaret Bizard in 1920 and had two children: Peter Heywood, FCollP and Ann Rosemary James née Heywood.^[11]

Notes

1. NPG details
2. Sequestrators of Eakring Rectory
3. Amongst others he wrote "The Worshipping Community", 1938; "On a Golden Thread", 1960; and "Finding Happiness in Remembering", 1978 British Library web site accessed 19:03 GMT Thursday 15 July 2010
4. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
5. http://thepeerage.com/p35601.htm
6. London Gazette
7. http://thepeerage.com/p35601.htm#i356009
8. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
9. BBC forum
10. Who was Who (ibid)
11. http://thepeerage.com/p35602.htm

• Beeson, Trevor. Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries - The very Reverend Hugh Heywood. Google Books