Nationality British Spouse Susannah Cornwall Role Chief justice | Name Samuel Heywood Religion Unitarian | |
Born 8 October 1753
Liverpool, Lancashire ( 1753-10-08 ) 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 Died September 11, 1828, Tenby, United Kingdom Education Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Warrington Academy | ||
Samuel Heywood (1753–1828) was an English serjeant-at-law and a Chief Justice of the Carmarthen Circuit of Wales.
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Life
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. 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.
Family and death
He married Susannah Cornwall (died 19 January 1822) on 1 January 1781 at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London. They had at least one son and five daughters:
- Phoebe Augusta Heywood (1 December 1781 - 12 June 1832)
- Edward Heywood (bapt 14 December 1782)
- Susannah Maria Heywood (bapt 13 Feb 1784)
- Sophia Heywood (bapt 16 March 1785)
- 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.
- Mary Isabella Heywood (bapt 16 January 1795)
On 29 August 1828, during one of his Welsh circuits, Heywood was seized with paralysis at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire and died on 11 September at nearby Tenby.