1810 - 1897 (87 years)
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Name |
James Heywood |
Suffix |
MP |
Birth |
28 May 1810 |
Manchester, England |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
17 Oct 1897 |
Person ID |
I191108 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
3 Aug 2022 |
Family |
Anne Kennedy, b. Abt 1819 d. 17 Jul 1872, 25 Kensington Palace Gardens, London (Age ~ 53 years) |
Marriage |
11 Jun 1853 |
Chorlton, Lancashire, England |
Children |
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Family ID |
F78586 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
3 Aug 2022 |
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Notes |
- he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and from 1847 to 1857 the Member of Parliament for North Lancashire.
According the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the university reformer and philanthropist James Heywood was resident in Kensington from 1859, where he was 'active in the Notting Hill Unitarian congregation. He was an early promoter of the free public library movement, speaking in favour of the Public Libraries Act in 1850 and maintaining at his own expense a public library in Notting Hill High Street from 1874 until 1887 when he donated it to the parish of Kensington and Chelsea. He was a founder member in 1875 of the Sunday Society to promote the opening of museums, art galleries, and public libraries on Sundays.'
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