Background
Heywood was born in Liverpool, Lancashire to Benjamin and Phoebe Heywood, née Ogden.
Heywood was born in Liverpool, Lancashire to Benjamin and Phoebe Heywood, née Ogden.
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.
Phoebe Augusta (1 December 1781 - 12 June 1832) Edward (bapt 14 December 1782) Susannah Maria (bapt 13 February 1784) Sophia (bapt 16 March 1785) Anne (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 (bapt 16 January 1795) On 29 August 1828, during one of his Welsh circuits, was seized with paralysis at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire and died on 11 September at nearby Tenby.