John Heminges

25 November 1566 – 10 October 1630) was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote.

[3][4][5] Heminges was baptised at St Peter de Witton Church, Droitwich, Worcestershire, on 25 November 1566.

Heminges and his sixteen-year-old wife settled in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury, and had at least thirteen children there between the years 1590 and 1613.

In August 1604, Augustine Phillips and Heminges and their King's Men fellows served at Somerset House as grooms in the household of the Spanish ambassador Juan Fernández de Velasco y Tovar, 5th Duke of Frías.

[8][9] The actors, possibly including William Shakespeare, may have employed simply as extra hired help in magnificent households appointed for the ambassadors, and were not necessarily the recipients of special royal favour.

[12] Heminges was mentioned in Shakespeare's will, along with Richard Burbage and Henry Condell, each being bequeathed 26 shillings and eightpence to buy mourning rings.

Burbage died before the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, but Heminges and Condell became credited contributors of the book.

The Globe was plagued by lawsuits as the shares were left to beneficiaries who did not have the continued welfare of the company at heart.