Sir John Edward Nourse Heygate, 4th Baronet (19 April 1903 – 18 March 1976),[1] was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist.
He is chiefly remembered for his liaison in 1929 with Evelyn Gardner while she was married to Evelyn Waugh. 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.