Heygate baronets

{{short description|Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom}}

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The Heygate Baronetcy, of Southend in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.{{London Gazette |issue=18851 |date=16 September 1831 |page=1898}} It was created on 30 September 1831 for William Heygate, Lord Mayor of London from 1822 to 1823 and member of parliament for Sudbury from 1818 to 1826.{{cite web |title=Heygate, William (1782-1844), of Chatham Place, Blackfriars, London; Holwood, Kent and Southend, Essex, History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/heygate-william-1782-1844 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}

The second Baronet, Sir Frederick William Heygate married Marianne Gage, daughter and heiress of Conolly Gage, in 1851 and so acquired Bellarena House at Bellarena, County Londonderry.{{cite book | last1=Howard | first1=J.J. | last2=Crisp | first2=F.A. | title=Visitation of Ireland | publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company | year=1973 | isbn=978-0-8063-0543-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpR6uNPmV1EC&pg=PT207 | page=207}}[http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/victorian-pre-raphaelite-british-impressionist-art-l17133/lot.11.html Portrait of Marianne Gage], Stephen Catterson Smith the Elder He represented the constituency of County Londonderry in the House of Commons as a Conservative from 1859 to 1874. The third Baronet, Sir Frederick Gage Heygate was Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Marquess of Londonderry, from 1887 to 1888.

The second son of the first baronet, William Unwin Heygate (1825–1902), was a Member of Parliament from 1861 to 1865 and from 1870 to 1880.{{Who's Who|title=Heygate, William Unwin|id=U187081}}

The family seat was Bellarena House, near Magilligan, County Londonderry.