HEYDON, SIR CHRISTOPHER, KNIGHT
Crest.—A talbot statant erm. Heydon.
Note.—Painted.
[Cicero. Orationum volumen primum, etc. Venetiis, 1540.]
Christopher Heydon (born circ. 1550, died circ. 1623) was the son of Sir William Heydon of Bacousthorpe, Norfolk. He was educated at Cambridge. In 1588 he represented Norfolk in the House of Commons, and in 1596 he was knighted by the Earl of Essex. Sir Christopher Heydon wrote some treatises on astrology. He married first Mirabel Rivet, and secondly Anne Dodge, and left a large family.
