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Heysham, John

(1753–1834)

S. R. S. Szreter

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/13177

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Heysham, John (1753–1834), physician and demographer, was born on 22 November 1753 in Lancaster, the son of Gyles Heysham, shipowner, and Anne Cumming, daughter of a substantial yeoman ‘statesman farmer’ of Holme, Westmorland. The Heyshams were a junior branch of the Cornet (later Gernet)...

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date: 12 April 2021

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