Peter John Heywood was a Deemster, Seneschal to the Duke of Athol and man of considerable culture and literary tastes. It is to his correspondence with Professor Thorkelin, of Copenhagen, that is owed the preservation of probably the oldest Manx Ballad in existence.
He was the last Heywood who held the Nunnery estates, as he sold them to John Taubman, of the Bowling Green, Castletown.
By his wife Elizabeth (born 1745, died 1808, buried at Whitehaven), only daughter of James Spedding, whom he married at Whitehaven, on the 15th of May, 1762, he had issue 6 sons and 3 daughters.
He was the last Heywood who held the Nunnery estates, as he sold them to John Taubman, of the Bowling Green, Castletown.
By his wife Elizabeth (born 1745, died 1808, buried at Whitehaven), only daughter of James Spedding, whom he married at Whitehaven, on the 15th of May, 1762, he had issue 6 sons and 3 daughters.
Peter John Heywood was a Deemster, Seneschal to the Duke of Athol and man of considerable culture and literary tastes. It is to his correspondence with Professor Thorkelin, of Copenhagen, that is owed the preservation of probably the oldest Manx Ballad in existence.
He was the last Heywood who held the Nunnery estates, as he sold them to John Taubman, of the Bowling Green, Castletown.
By his wife Elizabeth (born 1745, died 1808, buried at Whitehaven), only daughter of James Spedding, whom he married at Whitehaven, on the 15th of May, 1762, he had issue 6 sons and 3 daughters.
He was the last Heywood who held the Nunnery estates, as he sold them to John Taubman, of the Bowling Green, Castletown.
By his wife Elizabeth (born 1745, died 1808, buried at Whitehaven), only daughter of James Spedding, whom he married at Whitehaven, on the 15th of May, 1762, he had issue 6 sons and 3 daughters.
Inscription
In Memoriam / PETER JOHN HEYWOOD, Esq. / Formerly of the Nunnery, a Deemster of this Isle, / Died 6 Feby. 1790, aged 49. / Buried under this Church. / Jane, daughter of the above, and relict of the / Revd. WM. JAS. AISLABIE, M.A. Rector of Holywell, Hunts. / Died 28 Septr. 1856, Aged 79. / Buried in this Cemetery. / Erected by E.C. FLEETWOOD, and ELIZTH. née HEYWOOD, his wife.
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