Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heston, Walter
HESTON, WALTER (fl. 1350), Carmelite, was a Cambridge scholar and doctor of divinity, who is said to have obtained a great reputation as a philosopher and theologian. He belonged to the Carmelite house at Stamford. Tanner, on the authority of Bale, states that he was never provincial or vicar-general of the order in England; Cosmas de Villiers, however, says that he was so styled in the general chapters of the order held at Metz in 1348, Toulouse 1351, Perpignan 1354, and Ferrara 1357. He is said to have died and been buried at Stamford. He is also called Hessodunus, Nestonus, or Keso. According to Bale, he wrote, among other works: 1. ‘Quæstiones de Anima.’ 2. ‘Propositiones.’ Fabricius thinks he is the Walter who was author of certain treatises on logic which are preserved in a manuscript at Turin.
[Bale, x. 91; Harl. MS. 3838, f. 68 b (Bale's Heliades); C. de Villiers, Bibl. Carm. i. 579; Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 400; Fabricius, Bibl. Lat. Med. Ætatis, iii. 115, ed. 1754.]