Oliver Heywood
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Oliver Heywood Memorial in Salford
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| Born | 9 September 1825 |
| Died | 1892 (aged 66) |
| Occupation | British banker |
Oliver Heywood (9 September 1825 – 1892) was an English banker and philanthropist.
Born in Irlam, Lancashire, the son of Benjamin Heywood, and educated at Eton College, Heywood joined the family business, Heywood's Bank in the 1840s.
Heywood sponsored many philanthropic causes, including Manchester Mechanics' Institute, Chetham's Hospital, Manchester Grammar School and Owens College. He was selected as High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1888.
He married Eleanor Barton, daughter of Richard Watson Barton, on 7 September 1847; they had no children.
On 9 September 1825, Oliver Heywood was born in Irlams O' Th' Height near Manchester, England to the prominent English banker and well known philanthropist Sir Benjamin Heywood and his wife Sophia Ann Robinson. Heywood was born into a very wealthy and prominent English family. His family had made their fortune during the 1800s in banking. The Heywood bank was one of the more recognizable bank names in Manchester; it was located in St. Ann's Square. However, the Heywood legacy had endured some tarnishment from the 1700s.
Heywood was educated in Liverpool at St. Domingo House, at the time, a boarding school for boys that was housed by a large mansion. He then was educated at Mr. Mertz's School in Manchester and then at Eton College for his higher education. Heywood followed the finishing of his formal education by traveling abroad before beginning his very promising career in the family banking business.
On 7 September 1847, Heywood married Eleanor Barton, the daughter of a merchant from Pendlebury named Richard Watson Barton. The couple first lived in Acresfield in the house where Heywood had been born in Irlams O' Th' Height near Manchester. However, after the death of Sir Benjamin Heywood in 1865, Heywood and Barton moved into his house nearby in Claremont. Despite their thirty-year marriage, Heywood and Barton would bear no children. She died in September 1877.
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