Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heron, Haly

by Alsager Richard Vian

HERON, HALY (fl. 1565–1585), author, matriculated as a sizar at Queens' College, Cambridge, November 1565. He proceeded B.A. 1569–70. 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. The book is a series of chapters of advice to young men. 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 Walsingham.

[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 452; Cal. State Papers Dom. 1581–90, p. 291.]

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