Heywood baronets

The Heywood Baronetcy, of Claremont in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 August 1838 for the banker, politician and philanthropist Benjamin Heywood. He had been instrumental in the passage of the 1832 Reform Act. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1851. The third Baronet was a railway entrepreneur and served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire
in 1899. The fourth Baronet was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1922. The fifth Baronet was an artist.

Heywood baronets, of Claremont (1838)

Sir Benjamin Heywood, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Percival Heywood, 2nd Baronet
Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, 3rd Baronet
Sir Percival Heywood, CB, DSO, 4th Baronet
Sir Oliver Kerr Heywood, 5th Baronet
Sir Peter Heywood, 6th Baronet

The heir presumptive to the baronetcy is Michael Heywood, younger twin brother of the 6th Baronet. His heir apparent is his son Daniel Oliver Heywood.

Extended family

Oliver Heywood, younger son of the first Baronet, was a banker and philanthropist. Cecil Percival Heywood, second son of the third Baronet and father of the fifth Baronet, was a Major-General in the Army. The Right Reverend Bernard Heywood, son of Reverend Henry Robinson, fifth son of the first Baronet, was Bishop of Ely.