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Heywood

American  
[hey-wood] / ˈheɪ wʊd /

noun

  1. John, 1497?–1580?, English dramatist and epigrammatist.

  2. Thomas, 1573?–1641, English dramatist, poet, and actor.

  3. a male given name.


Heywood 1 British  
/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

  1. John. ?1497–?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes

  2. Thomas. ?1574–1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)

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Heywood 2 British  
/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop: 28 024 (2001))

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The letter, marked "official - sensitive", was shared with Jeremy Heywood, the then-cabinet secretary, John Manzoni, the then-permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, Kim Darroch, then-British ambassador to the US, the HR directors at the foreign office and cabinet office, and Simon McDonald, now Lord McDonald, who was then-head of the foreign office.

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The mother of one of those boys - Alan 'Chinner' Heywood - had directed Virgo to the club off Trafford Road.

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Prosecution barrister Mark Heywood KC said Voloshyn asked Gill to book a room.

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By December 2018, Mr Heywood said messages indicated there was already a "close relationship between the two men".

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“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity,” attorney Chris Heywood said.

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