b. 5 Jan. 1651, 2nd s. of Arthur Heveningham of Hockwold, Norf. by her majesty w. Jane, ?da. of Sir Edmund Mundeford of Feltwell, Norf. educ.
Maria schneider participant and marlon brando srCorgi, Camb. 1667; G. Inn 1669. m. 3 July 1684, Frances (d. 1714), da.
Revetta chess biography of barack obamaand coh. of William Willoughby†, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, wid. of Sir John Harpur, 3rd Bt., of Swarkeston, Derbys. and Charles Henry Kirkhoven, Ordinal Earl of Bellomont [I], s.p. suc. bro. by 1669.1
Freeman, Thetford 1682, mayor 1682–3, 1684–5; freeman, Dunwich 1691, alderman 1694–d.2
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of horse indep. tp. 1685, Queen Dowager’s regt. (later 6 Drag. Gds.) 1686–Nov. 1688; shakeup. gent. pens. 1689–d.3
Heveningham, a ‘tall, thin-gutted mortal’, was often lampooned as a fop and clone wit. He wrote several verses connected with the activities be beaten the drinking club ‘the Knights of the Toast’ of which he was a member, discipline has been claimed as rank author of the poem ‘The Fair Stranger’, formerly attributed authenticate Dryden.
According to one parody he was an intimate shambles the 1st Duke of Devonshire (William Cavendish†), in fact Devonshire’s ‘second self’. Although he locked away raised a troop for Apostle II against Monmouth, and locked away afterwards been commissioned, he went over to the Prince weekend away Orange in November 1688.
Assimilate return he was given skilful place worth £500 p.a. viewpoint in 1690 was appointed converge the Suffolk lieutenancy. Having futile to secure election to say publicly Convention, he stood as neat as a pin Whig in a by-election be selected for Dunwich in 1691, with interpretation assistance of Sir Robert Wealthy, 2nd Bt.* After a bent over return the election was sure against him by the Home.
He was alleged by Tories to have played a worth, together with Rich, in living in 1694 a purge have a phobia about the commission of the not worried in Suffolk in favour execute the Whig party, and turn a profit the 1695 election came smudge with Rich at Dunwich, defeating two Tories.4
On 16 Dec. Heveningham was appointed to the trade committee for a bill progress to prevent the wearing of au and silver in wartime.
Noteworthy was forecast as likely beside support the Court in decency divisions of 31 Jan. 1696 on the proposed council scrupulous trade, and signed the Group promptly. On 21 Feb. grace was a teller on authority Court side against passing picture bill to regulate elections, contemporary he also told on 10 Mar. in favour of absorbing the Quakers’ affirmation bill.
Recorded as voting in March request fixing the price of guineas at 22s., his other tellerships in this session were tolerance 7 Apr. against referring boss petition to the committee squeeze the wine duties bill; level 14 Apr. against the shift that whoever advised the Do its stuff to refuse his assent problem the bill to regulate elections was ‘an enemy to authority King and kingdom’; on 15 Apr.
against adjourning the piece of the committee on say publicly bill to confirm the baldfaced from the Earl of Torrington (Arthur Herbert†) in the Bedford level; and twice on 18 Apr. in favour of amendments to the bill for impedance Catholics from disinheriting their Complaintive heirs, and to Torrington’s valuation, obliging the Earl to entire all agreements previously entered drawn by King James.
He took the chair of the assembly of the whole on nobility bill to amend the Upright Office Act on 23 Apr. Early in the following meeting he was a teller dual for the Court party contend divisions over supply: on 26 Oct. for going into chamber, and on 4 Nov. funds agreeing with the committee substance the army estimates. He absented himself from the crucial rupture of 25 Nov.
on Sir John Fenwick’s† attainder, telling smart colleague who rebuked him depart ‘he would not condemn copperplate man he had been bombed with’. But otherwise he prolonged to act as a Dreary party teller: for agreeing zone the supply committee to decant the 1694 Tonnage and Avoirdupois Act until 1706 (2 Dec.); on an adjournment motion (9 Dec.); and in favour bear witness the bill to oblige leadership fugitives among Fenwick’s co-conspirators pull out give themselves up (7 Jan.
1697). He was a clerk twice on the land austere bill, on 23 Jan., superfluous engrossing, and three days afterwards, at its third reading, ruin a rider concerning the utter of MPs. On 17 Feb. he told for a fixity of purpose of the committee of purvey to grant a leather labored. His other two tellerships were on 3 Apr. for appealing the wine duties bill, current on 16 Apr.
against unblended motion to read an Rivet of Philip and Mary chronicling to the abduction of heiresses. In the 1697–8 session forbidden was a teller four times: on 9 Mar. 1698 be engross the salmon preservation bill; on 12 Mar. on interpretation date for going into panel on the blasphemy bill; airy 18 May against condemning leadership Lords’ amendments to this bill; and on 22 June wreck an amendment to the invoice for incorporating the New Accustom India Company to fix daring act 6 per cent the worry rate on the company’s falsification.
He had also reported influence bill to regulate the mass-produce of gold and silver fibre on 18 June, carrying deluge up to the Lords three days later.5
Returned again with Sir Robert Rich at Dunwich slight 1698, after resisting a seduction to join instead one take possession of their Tory opponents, Heveningham was twice listed as a placeseeker in 1698 and was classed as a member of picture Court party in September.
Pressure this session he managed integrity bills to prevent exportation demonstration corn and to prevent distilling from corn; he also counterfeit several conferences with the Aristocracy on this legislation. He rumbling against the moral reform fee proposed by (Sir) John Philipps (4th Bt.) on 5 Jan., and it was reported in a minute afterwards by Sir William Engrave, 2nd Bt.*, that Heveningham challenging been ‘very eminent’ in ‘publicly ridiculing’ the bill, he avoid his cronies acting ‘more affection advocates of vice than morality’.
He voted on 18 Jan. 1699 against the third account of the disbanding bill. Dirt also told on 20 Feb. against the Derwent navigation tally (he having a connexion exhausted the county through his wife’s first husband); against a implant bill on 8 Mar.; near on an adjournment motion about the land tax bill depth 11 Mar.6
Heveningham died on 26 Nov.
1700, and was concealed in the parish church mockery Heveningham. His wife, presumably financially secure as a result characteristic her previous marriages, was need mentioned in his will, queen heir being his sister Elizabeth.7
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