Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate, 4th Baronet (19 April 1903 – 18 March 1976),[1] was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist.
He is portrayed as "John Beaver" in Waugh's A Handful of Dust[2] and as "Sir Piers Tofield" in Henry Williamson's Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.
[3] In the late 1920s Heygate was on the fringes of the group of socialites known as the "Bright Young People" and was friends with the author Anthony Powell.
[1][5] In 1932 he joined the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation and worked in collaboration with the German UFA film company at their Babelsberg Studio near Berlin.
[2] His books comprise:[12] Heygate is credited[16] as a co-writer on the following films, made in Germany and starring Lilian Harvey: