Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Heyden, (Sir) John
Heyden, (Sir) John (s. Sir Christopher), created D.C.L. 20 Dec., 1642, a royalist lieut.-general of the ordnance, "as great a scholar as a soldier, especially in mathematics," knighted July or Aug., 1620; suffered much for the royal cause; died 26 Oct., 1657, D.N.B. (Wood says 16 Oct., 1653). See Fasti, ii. 43.