Haly Heron

Captain Haly Heron (c. 1550–1591), was an English author and soldier during the Elizabethan era.

Biography

Haly matriculated as a sizar at Queens' College, Cambridge in November 1565 and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1570.[1] 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.[1] Shortly after the publication of the book, Haly entered the service of Sir Nicholas Malby in Connaught, Ireland.[2] 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 Sir Francis Walsingham.[1] In 1586, he served in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War and he was made a Captain in 1590.[2] He was killed in May 1591, when leading an assault on a town in Brittany.[2]

References

1. Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 452; Cal. State Papers Dom. 1581–90. p. 291.
2. Heltzel, Virgil B. “Haly Heron: Elizabethan Essayist and Euphuist.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, 1952, pp. 1–21.,

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Vian, Alsager Richard (1891). "Heron, Haly". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 251.