HEADLAND, Thomas Hughes. Accompanied C. Dickens on his first American tour as secretary 1842; silversmith 13 Great Sutton st. Clerkenwell, London 1842–59; kept Sussex hotel at Eastbourne about 1869–72. d. Merton lodge, 17 Bolton road, Eastbourne 2 Jany. 1888 aged 82. Forster’s C. Dickens i, 278 (1872); Eastbourne Chronicle 7 Jany. 1888 pp. 4 5.
HEADLEY, Winn Charles Allanson, 3 Baron. b. 25 June 1810; succeeded his uncle 1840; a representative peer for Ireland 26 Sep. 1868 to death. d. Ennismore gardens, Kensington, London 30 July 1877.
HEALD, Henry George. b. 1822; well known to Sunday school teachers in all parts of the world; secretary of Church of England Sunday school institute 1855–72; lecturer at Sunday schools 1872 to death. d. 90 Albert road, Peckham Rye, Surrey 25 Nov. 1881 aged 59. bur. Brompton cemetery 30 Nov.
HEALD, James (2 son of James Heald, merchant). b. Portwood near Stockport 1 March 1796; ed. Rochdale; in his father’s business at Brinnington and Disley, Cheshire, became a partner and made a fortune; resided at Parr’s Wood near Didsbury, Manchester 1825 to death; M.P. Stockport 1847–52; treasurer Wesleyan missionary soc., the most prominent layman in the connection and a preacher; founded and chiefly maintained Stockport infirmary. d. Parr’s Wood 26 Oct. 1873. bur. Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, personalty sworn under £350,000, 3 Jany. 1874. Manchester Examiner 29 Oct. 1873 p. 8.
HEALE, Rev. Edmund Markham (2 son of Markham Heale of Calne, Wilts.) b. 12 May 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., Boden Sanskrit scholar 1844, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; professor of classics in royal military coll. Sandhurst, June 1851 to 1859; C. of Woolavington, Somerset 1859–60; R. of Yelling near Huntingdon 1860 to death; author of Manual of Geography 1853, 3 ed. 1863. d. Yelling rectory 7 Dec. 1874.
HEALE, James Newton. b. 1810; L.S.A. 1834; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1845, M.R.C.P. 1846; M.B. London 1850, M.D. 1850; phys. royal free hospital, London; phys. Hants. county hospital; author of Treatise on vital causes 1859; A treatise on the physiological anatomy of the lungs 1862. d. Hollington lodge near St. Leonards-on-Sea 16 April 1891.
HEALES, Richard (son of an ironmonger). b. London; apprentice to a coachmaker; went to Victoria, Australia 1842; a day labourer, became proprietor of his master’s business; councillor for Gipps ward, Melbourne 1849;. member of legislative assembly for East Bourke 1857 to death; chief sec. 26 Nov. 1860 to 14 Nov. 1861; president of board of lands and works and comr. of crown lands 27 June 1863 to death. d. Melbourne 19 June 1864.
HEAPHY, Charles (son of Thomas Heaphy water colour painter 1775–1835). b. 1818; draughtsman to New Zealand co. 1839, exploring in N.Z. 1839, road making 1843; draughtsman to N.Z. government Aug. 1848; commissioner Coromandel gold fields 1852; surveyor for government of N.Z. 1854, chief surveyor 1864; was in third Maori war, wounded 11 Feb. 1864, major in militia 11 Feb. 1864, V.C. 8 Feb. 1867; member N.Z. house of representatives 1867–70, comr. of government insurance and judge of native land courts 1878, retired June 1881; author of Narrative of a residence in various parts of New Zealand 1842. d. Brisbane 3 Aug. 1881 aged 63. O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross (1880) 174.
HEAPHY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. St. John’s Wood, London 2 April 1813; assumed additional Christian name of Frank, but dropped it before 1850; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1831–74; member soc. of British Artists to 1867; among his best known paintings are Lord Burleigh showing his bride her new home 1865 and Lizzie Farren after Countess of Derby waiting at the prison bars with her father’s breakfast 1872; visited Rome several times to investigate origin of likeness of Christ; author of The likeness of Christ, an enquiry into the verisimilitude of the received likeness of our Blessed Lord 1880, 2 ed. 1886; A wonderful ghost story, Mr. Heaphy’s own narrative 1882. d. 46 Sussex st. Pimlico, London 7 Aug. 1873. Bryan’s Dict. of Painters, i, 636 (1886).
HEARD, Jacob or James. b. 1799; went to Russia where he introduced the Lancaster schools; wrote a large number of Russian school books and several very popular novels; author of A practical grammar of the Russian language. St. Petersburg 1827; Key to the themes contained in Beard’s Russian grammar. St. Petersburg 1827; Phraseology of the Russian language. St. Petersburg 1840; An edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield in Russian 1846. d. 28 Sep. 1875.