Heaviside, Richard

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Heaviside of Seymour St, proposed Society for Constitutional Information 18.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Williams, WITHDREW

Not a common name so probably the following but no mention elsewhere of Seymour St address, perhaps an error for Somerset St. Lyson's Environs of London (1792) Peterborough House, Fulham was sold to Richard Heaviside, Esq on death of late Lord Peterborough (i.e. 1779), now unoccupied. Member of Society for Encouragement of Arts. Manufactures & Commerce 1785-6 Peterborough House, 1787-9 Temple, 1790-3 Peterborough House, 1794-8 Somerset St, 1800 London. Richard Heaviside, Esq member of Whig Club from 1788. World 28.7.1788 ad from four Middlesex magistrates (all whigs including Sheridan) promising fair election. World 24.8.1789 Richard Heaviside Esq of Peterborough House married at Topsham, Devon Miss Spicer of Mount Wear, Exeter (Topsham registers 20.8.1789 bach & sp Ann Spicer). 1789 United Company of Merchants Richard Heaviside Esq 25 Somerset St, Portman Sq. Subscr 1791 to Mary Robinson's Poems. 1793 Friends of the People. Regular appearance as magistrate at Middlesex Sessions ceased after 1793. He died at Bath 12.4.1815 (administration of effects granted 1873). His mother-in-law Elizabeth widow of William Spicer will PCC 1818 mentioned daus Ann Heaviside, Elizabeth Bruce, Bridget Spicer, sons John William, William Frederick, William Harry & William Francis Spicer. Will PCC 1820 of sister-in-law Bridget Spicer mentioned Ann Heaviside widow of Paragon Bldgs, Bath. His widow Ann will PCC 1855 of Brunswick Sq, Brighton