About Henry Heron
Lived 1675 – 1730 (aged 54–55). Henry Heron was a British and English politician.
Henry Heron (1675–1730), of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire, and St. James, Westminster, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1727.
Heron was the eldest surviving son of Sir Henry Heron of Cressy Hall and his wife Dorothy Long, daughter of Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet of Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire. In 1695, he succeeded his father. He married Abigail Heveningham, daughter of Sir William Heveningham of Ketteringham, Norfolk on 12 February 1696. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk for the year 1708 to 1709.
Heron was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston at the 1713 general election.
Heron died on 10 September 1730, aged 55. He and his wife had two daughters and a son who died without issue.
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Who was Henry Heron?
politician; (1675-1730)
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Henry Heron was born in 1675 in Westminster.
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Henry Heron died in 1730.
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Henry Heron was a politician.
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Henry Heron was British and English.
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