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John Heygate was born on 19 April, 1903, is a Northern Irish writer. Discover John Heygate's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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1903

Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate, 4th Baronet (19 April 1903 – 18 March 1976), was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist.

1920

In the late 1920s Heygate was on the fringes of the group of socialites known as the "Bright Young People" and was friends with the author Anthony Powell.

1926

In 1926 he went to Heidelberg as a trainee for the Foreign Office.

He subsequently got a job as an assistant news editor at the BBC.

1929

He is chiefly remembered for his liaison in 1929 with Evelyn Gardner while she was married to Evelyn Waugh.

He is portrayed as "John Beaver" in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and as "Sir Piers Tofield" in Henry Williamson's Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.

Heygate was the son of Frances Harvey and Arthur Heygate, who was an Eton College housemaster and third son of the second baronet.

He was educated at Eton College and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

In 1929 divorce proceedings began between Evelyn Waugh and the Honourable Evelyn Gardner (a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghclere).

Heygate was cited and hence was forced to resign from the BBC.

1930

(This scandal is said to be one reason why the BBC's first Director General, Reith, took a firm line against any of his staff being involved in a divorce.) In 1930 he married Gardner.

1932

In 1932 he joined the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation and worked in collaboration with the German UFA film company at their Babelsberg Studio near Berlin.

1935

Of staunch right-wing views, he was present at the 1935 Nuremberg Rally in the company of his friend the writer Henry Williamson.

In neighbouring seats were Unity Mitford, Diana Mitford and Dr. Frank Buchman.

1936

Heygate and Gardner were divorced in 1936.

In February of the same year, he remarried, to the Gaumont-British actress Gwyneth Lloyd (of the Lloyds Bank family ).

They subsequently moved to Sussex.

They had two sons George and Richard, both of whom eventually inherited the baronetcy.

Despite his political sympathies he served as a bombardier in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War.

1940

He wrote the book These Germans, published in 1940.

He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet, of Southend, Essex, on 14 January 1940.

1947

Heygate and Lloyd divorced in 1947.

1951

He married again in 1951 to Dora Harvey.

1968

She died in 1968.

1970

By the 1970s he was living alone in Bellarena, County Londonderry.

1976

In 1976 Heygate committed suicide by shooting himself.

He was 72.

His books comprise:

Heygate is credited as a co-writer on the following films, made in Germany and starring Lilian Harvey: