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Heyworth returned to England. Our restrictive Tariff upon 

 sugar, coffee, and other produce of South America, made it 

 necessary for his firm to have an establishment at Hamburgh ; 

 and he accordingly formed in 181 7 an agency under the name of 

 Jackson, Heyworth, and Co. In 18 17 Mr. Heyworth visited their 

 commercial agents at Trieste and Leghorn, extending their 

 transactions with those ports, and saving at the former place a 

 valuable cargo from a failing house. In 18 19 he again visited 

 Hamburgh, sold a large stock of coffee which the partner was 

 holding over, and realised by that single transaction a profit of no 

 less than ;^2o,ooo ; delayed sale of which would, by a sudden fall 

 in the market, which shortly took place, have resulted in a loss 

 almost to that amount. On his return in the same year, Mr. 

 Heyworth purchased the estate of Yew Tree, near Liverpool ; and 

 in 1820 married Elizabeth, his second cousin, daughter of Mr. 

 Aked. From this time he took no very active part in commercial 

 affairs. He was one of the first to perceive the practicability and 

 importance of railways ; and was one of their earliest promoters, 

 inducing his brothers to join him in withdrawing his capital from 

 commerce, and investing it in the Ironways. This he did, not 

 only on the ground of profit, but of national advantage. In 1836 

 the firm disposed of their several establishments at home and 

 abroad to junior partners, who still continue to prosper in the 

 several branches of business founded by the subject of this memoir. 



Mr. Heyworth first took an active part in politics upon the 

 agitation of the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. He 

 was the second chairman of the Liverpool Free Trades Association; 

 was appointed in 1839 one of the three deputies to the first great 

 conference at Manchester, when the deputies were charged to go 

 only for a fixed duty, to which, however, he refused to consent, 

 and produced a powerful impression upon the meeting, which 

 afterwards influenced the entire agitation, by his assertion of the 

 moral importance of Free Trade, and the right of the people to 

 untaxed bread. From that time he was one of the most zealous 

 members of the League,— was the first to offer a subscription of 



