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William Unwin HeygateWilliam Unwin Heygate (12 March 1825 - 2 March 1902) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and Leicestershire politician. BiographyHeygate 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] FamilyHeygate married, Constance Mary Beaumont, daughter of Sir George Beaumont 8th baronet, on 6 July 1852.[4] The couple had four children:[5]
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