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Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate, 4th
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/ref> was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his liaison in 1929 with Evelyn Gardner while she was married to
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'' 3 October 2008 and as "Sir Piers Tofield" in
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's ''Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight''.


Background

Heygate was the son of Frances Harvey and Arthur Heygate, who was an
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and third son of the second baronet. He was educated at
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and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a
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degree. In 1926 he went to
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as a trainee for the Foreign Office. He subsequently got a job as an assistant news editor at the
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Geoff Brown, ''Film History'', vol 20, 2008 In the late 1920s Heygate was on the fringes of the group of socialites known as the "
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" and was friends with the author
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. In 1929 divorce proceedings began between Evelyn Waugh and
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Evelyn Gardner (a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghclere). Heygate was cited and hence was forced to resign from the BBC. (This scandal is said to be one reason why the
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's first Director General, Reith, took a firm line against any of his staff being involved in a divorce.) In 1930 he married Gardner. In 1932 he joined the
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and worked in collaboration with the German
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film company at their
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near Berlin. Of staunch right-wing views, he was present at the 1935
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in the company of his friend the writer
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. In neighbouring seats were
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,
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and Dr.
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. Heygate and Gardner were divorced in 1936. In February of the same year, he remarried, to the Gaumont-British actress
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(of the
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family). They subsequently moved to Sussex. They had two sons
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, both of whom eventually inherited the baronetcy. Despite his political sympathies he served as a bombardier in the
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during the Second World War. He wrote the book ''These Germans'', published in 1940. He succeeded to the title of 4th
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, of Southend, Essex, on 14 January 1940. Heygate and Lloyd divorced in 1947. He married again in 1951 to Dora Harvey. She died in 1968. By the 1970s he was living alone in Bellarena, County Londonderry. In 1976 Heygate committed suicide by shooting himself. He was 72.


Works


Books

His books comprise: * ''Decent Fellows'' (1930), a public school novel. * ''White Angel'' (1934) * ''Talking Picture'' ( Jonathan Cape, 1934), a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with experiences in
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, similar to Christopher Isherwood's ''
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''. * ''Motor Tramp'' (Jonathan Cape, 1935), a factual account of tours in an MG motor car, including a visit to
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. *''A House for Joanna'' (1937). A tale of life on the Sussex coast. *''These Germans: An estimate of their character seen in flashes from the drama, 1918–1939'' (1940) *''Love and Death'' (1943) *''Kurumba'' (
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, 1949). Described as: ''A raffish, intelligent tale of a soldier and his native mistress, set in the imaginary Kurumba, somewhere on the Indian sub-continent, during the second world war.''


Screenplays

Heygate is credited
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 as a co-writer on the following films, made in Germany and starring
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: *''The Only Girl (Ich und die Kaiserin)'' (1934) *''Black Roses (Schwarze Rosen)'' (1935)


References

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