HEATH, George Craufurd. Ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of King’s coll. 1807 to death; F.R.S. d. 18 July 1860.
HEATH, George Thomas, b. 1778; barrister I.T. 13 Nov. 1807; serjeant at law 22 Nov. 1830, received patent of precedence 1834; deputy judge of county court of Middlesex. d. 34 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 21 Jany. 1852.
HEATH, John Benjamin (son of John Heath of Genoa, merchant). b. Genoa 6 June 1790; ed. at Harrow 1798–1806; fag to Lord Byron; consul general for Kingdom of Sardinia 10 May 1817–61, for Kingdom of Italy 1861 to death; a merchant and foreign banker in London to death; a director of Bank of England 1823–72, deputy governor 1843–4, governor 1846–7; master of Grocers company 1829; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1832; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1843; baron Heath in the Kingdom of Italy 26 May 1867; author of Some account of the Company of Grocers 1829, 2 ed. 1854. d. 66 Russell sq. London 16 Jany. 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 8 March 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, 6 (1879); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii, 101 (1881).
HEATH, Rev. Richard Ford (only son of Richard Ford Heath of Uxbridge, Middlesex). b. 1833; matric. at Univ. of London 1850, B.A. 1853; matric. at Univ. of Oxford 17 Feb. 1873, B.A. 1876, M.A. 1879; C. of St. Philip and St. James, Oxford 1875–8; head master of Bideford gr. sch. 1879–80; V. of Bishopswood, Staffs. 1880 to death; author of Albrecht Dürer and Titian 2 vols. 1879 in Illustrated biographies of Great Artists. d. Bideford 11 March 1888 aged 55.
HEATH, Thomas, b. Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. 10 Dec. 1808; played with the Nottingham eleven 1828–45; could throw a ball 107 yards; a good cover point and middle wicket; lacemaker, emigrated to France where he remained 1839–44; resided at Nottingham 1844 to death. d. while on a visit to Sutton 16 Oct. 1872. bur. Nottingham. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 66 (1862), v, p. xiv (1876).
HEATHCOAT, John (son of Francis Heathcoat of Long Whatton, Leics., farmer). b. Duffield near Derby 7 Aug. 1783; a setter up of hosiery and warp frames at Nottingham, at Hathern 1803, at Loughborough 1805; inventor of lace making machinery by patenting a bobbin net machine 1809 which he called Old Loughborough; partner with Charles Lacy 1809–16, partner with John Boden at Tiverton 1816–21; retired from business 1843; M.P. for Tiverton 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 April 1859; built British schools at Tiverton, opened 1843. d. Bollam house, Tiverton 18 Jany. 1861. W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery (1867) 180–270, portrait; Bevan’s British manufacturing industries, Hosiery, By W. Felkin (1877) 56–73; Mozley’s Reminiscences, i, 239–42 (1885).
HEATHCOTE, Arthur (son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1773–1851). b. 22 June 1829; had private races in Durdans park; a perpetual steward of Epsom races to which he contributed an annual plate; master Surrey stag hounds to death. d. Durdans, Epsom 18 March 1869. Sporting Rev. Feb. 1863 p. 165, portrait; Sporting Gazette 20 March 1869 p. 199.
HEATHCOTE, Edmund (3 son of Rev. Samuel Heathcote of Red house, Hursley, d. 27 Nov. 1846 aged 73). b. 1814; entered navy June 1827, captain 15 Dec. 1852; commander in chief at Queenstown 20 May 1871 to 1 Jany. 1874; V.A. 1 Jany. 1874, retired 30 Jany. 1879; retired admiral 15 June 1879. d. Fritham lodge, New Forest 29 Oct. 1881.
HEATHCOTE, Sir Gilbert, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3 baronet). b. Oct. 1773; succeeded 4 Dec. 1785; M.P. for Lincolnshire 1796–1807, for Rutland 1812–1841; won the Derby with Amato 1838. d. Durdans, Epsom 27 March 1851. W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed. (1886) 155; I.L.N. xviii, 273 (1851); Thoughts of a Lincolnshire freeholder. With a dialogue between Sir G. Heathcote and a Lincolnshire freeholder, 3 ed. 1796.
HEATHCOTE, Sir Henry (4 son of Sir William Heathcote, 3 bart., of Hursley park, Hants., M.P. 1746–1819). b. 20 Jany. 1777; entered navy 3 July 1790, captain 5 Feb. 1798; knighted 20 July 1819 at request of Sir Gore Ouseley and Mirza Abdul Hassan the Persian ambassador whom he conveyed to Persia 1808; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; awarded a service pension 1 July 1851; published Treatise on stay-sails, and the superiority of stay-sails invented by Sir H. Heathcote 1824. d. Ingouville near Havre 16 Aug. 1851.