The Heygate Baronetcy, of Southend in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 September 1831 for William Heygate, Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...

 from 1822 to 1823 and Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Sudbury

Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Sudbury was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. A parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, it returned two Members of Parliament from 1559 until it was disenfranchised for corruption in 1844...

 from 1818 to 1826. The second Baronet married Marianne Gage

Viscount Gage

Viscount Gage, of Castle Island in the County of Kerry of the Kingdom of Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1720 for Thomas Gage, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Gage, of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, also in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1744 he also...

 in 1851 and so acquired an estate at Bellarena

Bellarena

Bellarena is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is on the A2 coastal road between Limavady and Coleraine, 6 miles north of Limavady. It is sometimes referred to as Ballyscullion or Drumavalley. In the 2001 Census the population was 291...

, County Londonderry

County Londonderry

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. He represented the constituency of County Londonderry in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 as a Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 from 1859 to 1874. The third Baronet was Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Marquess of Londonderry

Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry

Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCVO, PC, DL, JP , styled Viscount Castlereagh between 1872 and 1884, was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician, landowner and benefactor, who served in various capacities in the Conservative administrations of the late 19th and...

, from 1887 to 1888.

Heygate Baronets, of Southend (1831)

• Sir William Heygate, 1st Baronet (1782-1844)
• Sir Frederick William Heygate, 2nd Baronet (1822-1894)
• Sir Frederick Gage Heygate, 3rd Baronet (1854-1940)
• Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate
  John Heygate
  Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate, 4th Baronet was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist.Heygate was the son of an Eton College housemaster Arthur Conolly Gage Heygate and Frances Evelyn Rowley Harvey...
  
  , 4th Baronet (1903-1976)
• Sir George Lloyd Heygate, 5th Baronet (1936-1991)
• Sir Richard John Gage Heygate, 6th Baronet (b. 1940)