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Haly Heron (c. 1550–1591), was an English writer and soldier during the

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Biography

Haly matriculated as a

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in November 1565 and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1570. For the benefit of a pupil, John Kaye the younger, he wrote ''‘A new Discourse of Morall Philosophie entituled the Kayes of Counsaile, not so pleasant as profitable for younge Courtiours,’'' London, 1579. Shortly after the publication of the book, Haly entered the service of

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, Ireland.Heltzel, Virgil B. "Haly Heron: Elizabethan Essayist and Euphuist.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, 1952, pp. 1–21., In December 1585 Thomas Randolph, at the instigation of his wife, who was related to Heron, gave him very unwillingly a note of introduction to

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. In 1586, he served in the

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during the Anglo-Spanish War and he was made a Captain in 1590. He was killed in May 1591, when leading an assault on a town in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heron, Haly 1550s births 1591 deaths People of the Elizabethan era English essayists English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge 16th-century English poets English expatriates in Ireland