NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Heath, Benjamin, 1739-1817 NRA: Heath Charles (1785-1848) engraver and publisher LBT ID: BeHeath1817 VIAF ID: 7009495 LOC ID: no98069248 | B/BAP: 1739-10-29 DIED: 1817-05-31 |
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (Supplement to Part I, 1817) 643; Venn; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
The son of Benjamin Heath (d. 1766); educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he
was an assistant master at Eton and headmaster at Harrow (1771-85), and rector of Walkerne,
Hertfordshire (1781-1817). Like his father, he was a book collector. | |