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  Associate Church, Stirling, and grandson of the Rev. John Heugh, A.M. (1688–1731), parish minister of Kingoldrum, Forfarshire. His father was for some time professor of ethics to the antiburgher synod, now absorbed in the united presbyterian church. He was born at Stirling in 1782, and was ordained as colleague to his father on 14 Aug. 1806. Heugh took part in the negotiations during 1818 to 1820, which led to the union of the two branches of the secession church, and was moderator of the general associate synod in 1819. In September 1821 he was translated to the charge of a new congregation that had been founded in Regent Place, Glasgow. He was one of the pioneers of the home and foreign mission schemes in connection with the secession church, and his congregation became one of the largest of that body in Glasgow. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the college of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in 1831. In May 1834 he was one of the deputation appointed by the united secession church to attend the meeting of the English congregational union at London. He died 10 June 1846. In the records of the kirk session of Regent Place, where his death is referred to, he is described as ‘illustrious for his piety, wisdom, devotedness, liberality, and zealous and unwearied exertions for the support and extension of the cause of Christ.’ A memoir of Heugh was published by his son-in-law, the Rev. Hamilton M. Macgill, D.D., together with his select works (2 vols. 8vo, 1850; 2nd edition, 1852). His principal works were: 1. ‘The Spirit of the Gospel amidst Religious Differences’ (preached before the general associate synod, 1819). 2. ‘Christian Liberty.’ 3. ‘Importance of Early Piety,’ Glasgow, 1826. 4. ‘Synodical Addresses on Missions and Revivals.’ 5. ‘The Voluntary Controversy’ (pamphlets). 6. ‘Notices of the State of Religion in Geneva and Belgium,’ Glasgow, 1844. 7. ‘Irenicum, an Inquiry into the real amount of the differences alleged to exist in the Synod of the Secession Church on the Atonement and Doctrines connected with it.’ 8. ‘Statement of Principles.’ 9. ‘Christian Beneficence,’ &c.

 HEVENINGHAM, WILLIAM (1604–1678), regicide, member of an influential family seated at Ketteringham in Norfolk, born in 1604, was the eldest surviving son of Sir John Heveningham, knt. (1577–1633), of Ketteringham, by his second wife, Bridget (d. 1624), daughter of Christopher Paston of Paston, Norfolk (Pedigree facing p. 5 of Ketteringham, also p. 41). In 1633 he was chosen sheriff of Norfolk (Vicecomites Norfolciæ, 1843). On 27 Oct. 1640 he was elected M.P. for Stockbridge in the county of Southampton (Lists of Members of Parliament, Official Return, pt. i. 493). At the outbreak of the civil war he took sides with the parliament. He advanced 250l. presumably for the garrison of Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, which was ordered to be repaid him by the collector of the county of Suffolk on 31 Jan. 1644 (Commons' Journals, iv. 37). In January 1646 he was serving on the committee of the Eastern Association (Hist. MSS. Comm. 8th Rep. pt. i. p. 10 a). On being nominated one of the high court of justice to try the king he attended on 22, 23, and 27 Jan. 1649, when the sentence was confirmed, but refused to sign the death-warrant. He was constituted a member of the council of state on the following 13 Feb., and placed on various committees (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649–50 p. 6, 1650 p. 322). At the sales of bishops' lands he purchased, on 1 June 1649, the manors of Dalston, Rose Castle, and Linstock, the property of the diocese of Carlisle, for 4,161l. 12s. 10d. (Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, i. 290). In 1651 he became vice-admiral of Suffolk (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1651 p. 241, 1651–1652 pp. 130, 550). At the Restoration Heveningham surrendered upon the proclamation of 6 June 1660, and stated that he was the very first to come in. Between 21 May 1660 and 7 Feb. 1662 he petitioned the lords four times for mercy on the plea that he refused to consent to the king's death in spite of Bradshaw's importunity. He also asserted that he had furnished 500l. towards Sir George Booth's [see, first ] expedition in 1659. He boasted of generosity towards his dead brother, the loyalist Colonel Arthur Heveningham (d. 1657) (Hist. MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. pt. i. pp. 86, 125, 129, 158). His brother's widow Jane (then Mrs. Wakeham), however, declared that he had defrauded her and her family and turned them out of doors without means of support (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1660–1 p. 360, 1661–2 p. 351). On 18 Oct. 1660 he was tried at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey. He was brought up by himself on 19 Oct., and sentence of death formally passed (, State Trials, v. 995, 1000, 1219, 1225, 1229–30). He was then imprisoned in Windsor Castle, attainted,