Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1843 - 1844 - 1845

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George Heath Serjeant-at-Law  - aged 64/65                  1779-1852

Julia Anna Harrison (ne Heath) - aged 36/37                   1807-1879
John Moore Heath - aged 35/36                                       1808-1882
Douglas Denon Heath - aged 32/35                                 1811-1897
Dunbar Isidore Heath - age 28/29                                    1816-1888
Leopold G. Heath R.N. - age 26/27                                 1817-1907
Emma Jane Heath (later Whatman)    - aged 22/23         1821-1884

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Monday 6 May 1844
Sun (London)
National Testimonial to Mr.Rowland Hill under Management of the City of London Mercantile Committee on Postage.
Sir George Larpent, Bart., Chairman and Treasurer.
Committee - - -

The Committee engaged in this undertaking confidently appeal to the public for aid towards an object which is deserving of the support of all classes. The social benefits conferred by the system of the "Penny Postage" are not to be questioned, being within the experience of every one; and that it has added to the facilities of commerce, as well as stimulated the growth of intellectual inquiry and general intelligence, the merchant and the man of literature will readily testify.

The services of Mr.Rowland Hill, who introduced this system remain unacknowledged by the public. The opportunity of expressing a nation's gratitude is now offered.

The following subscriptions have been received in London. - - -
Perkins, Bacon and Petch £10.10.0 - - -
long list - - -

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Saturday 1 June 1844
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

Trinity College
On Wednesday last the Rev.John Moore Heath, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, was presented by the Master and Fellows of that society to the vicarage of Enfield, Middlesex, vacant by the death of the Rev.Dr.Cresswell

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Monday 15 July 1844
Morning Herald (London)
Births.
On Friday the 12th inst. at 60 Upper Norton Street, the lady of James Park Harrison Esq., of a son, still born.

(Julia Heath, elder sister of Sir Leopold Heath)

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Saturday 24 August 1844
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

Trinity College
On Sunday morning the liberal sum of £45/. 9s. was collected at the offertory, at Enfield church, in aid of the national schools, after a sermon by the Rev.John Moore Heath, M.A., of Trinity college, vicar.

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Wednesday 24 July 1844
Cambridge General Advertiser.

Testimonial to the Very Rev. George Peacock D.D., Dean of Ely, late Tutor of Trinity College,Cambridge.

On Wednesday 10th inst. a dinner took place at the Thatched-house Tavern, St.James Street, London, for the purpose of presenting a supert service of plate to the Very Rev.George Peacock D.D., Dean of Ely, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and late Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The following noblemen and gentlemen were present on the occasion - D.D.Heath- - - 

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Tuesday 14 August 1844
Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser

The Chemical and Mechanical Process and the Social Influence of the Penny Post.
At a recent meeting at the Royal Institution, in London, the Rev.John Barlow, in lecturing on the subject said - The notion of separating, by a system of stamps, the financial department of the Post-Office from the transmission and delivery of letters, originated with Mr.C.Whiting, fourteen years since.

This gentleman has been rewarded by the government for the taste and mechanical skill exhibited in the method in which he proposed to adjust his plan to the penny-rate adopted at the recommendation of Mr.Rowland Hill. With this notice of the history of the letter-stamps, Mr.Barlow entered on the manufacture of the adhesive label.

These are executed by Messrs.Perkins, Baconand Petch, on Mr.Perkins's principle of steel engraving by transfer. The process depends on the property of iron to become hard or soft as it receives or loses a small quantity or carbon. This was demonstrated by experiment; and the description of the process was illustrated by the exhibition of hard and soft steel rollers, plates, and impressions furnished by Messrs. Perkins and Co.

Mr.Barlow laid great stress on the absolute identity of every engraving, however numerous, produced by this method. He then observed, that the engine-work on the adhesive labels is of so close a pattern that it cannot be taken of by lithography or any similar contrivance.

continues - - - - long article.

Mr.Barlow then noticed some statistical conclusions. One engraving on Mr.Perkins hard steel roller will afford 1,680 transfers to soft steel plates: these again will, when hardened, admit of 60,000 impressions being pulled from each, so that one original will afford 100,800,000 impressions of labels, enough to paper one thousand apartments of 24 feet by 15, and 12 feet high, making allowance for door, two windows, chimney, pier glass, and dado. Twelve years ago, common envelopes were sold at 1s. the dozen: now, the postage envelope, with its medallion, may be bought wholesale at half a farthing (exclusive of stamp) and yet though the manufacture is peculiarly costly, it returns a small profit to the government.

More than two hundred and twenty millions of chargeable letters were posted in 1843. Now, taking a common sized letter as an unit, this quantity would pave a road 25 years wide (the average with Oxford Street, pavement included) from the general post office in London, to the entrance of Oxford. - - -

Mr.Barlow then briefly noticed some of the social advantages of the penny post. He touched on the strength and permanence it afforded to the influences of home - on the motives of self-education which it supplied - on the aid it ministered to the inquirer after truth. He stated, that at present about five millions sterling are forwarded through the Post-office by money orders, and noticed that the advantage of this arrangement to all, but especially the humbler ranks. - - -
 

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Saturday 24 August 1844
Hampshire Chronicle

At the time the new Insolvent Debtors Act received the royal assent, there were 21 debtors who had been confined in Whitecross St Prison, having been sent there from Kingsgate St Court of Requests. The day following the attachment of the royal signature to the Act, the whole of them prepared petitions, which were presented to Mr.Commissioner Heath, the Judge of that Court, who received them on the Monday.

They were on that and the subsequent day taken into consideration, when, on the Wednesday, separate orders were signed by the learned commissioner for their discharge. The powers of the Act which constitute this Court extends to debts under £2 and the term of imprisonment to 20 days. 

No special meeting had been held by the Commissioners on the new Act which received the signature of his late Majesty King William, on the 19th of Aug, 1836. When the last Act was passed, there was no application to the commissioner by any debtor for his discharge from prison, from which it is supposed that there was no person connected with the authority of that Court was incarcerated.

The powers of the Westminster Court of Requests reach to debts under £5. The commissioners had no power to imprison beyond seven days, and which included the day imprisonment commenced and that when it ended. At the time the Act was passing the Legislature, there was then a very prevalent disposition to abolish imprisonment for debt, on which account the length of imprisonment was limited in the clause of the Act to seven days.

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Tuesday 10 September 1844
Sussex Advertiser.

Dorking - The Horticultural Meeting.

The third exhibition of the Society for the present year, took place on Friday last, in the room of the Red Lion. The day was most propitious, and from 2 till past 3 oclock continual arrivals added to the numbers that congregated to witness the exhibition. 

There was a very fine display of fruits, as well as a choice show of flowers, thought the latter perhaps, hardly kept pace with the former. There were, however, some very fine specimens. Amongst the plants deserving particular attention, we noticed one from Eastwick Park, called Lisianthiis Russelliana, and from the gardens of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, a beautiful specimen of Lilium speciosum.  - - - -

Among the company present we observed the Countess Rothes, Lady Elizabeth Wathan, Mr.Charles Barclay, and Mrs. George Barclay,  - - - Mr.Serjeant Heath and Miss Heath, - - - 

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Saturday 28 September 1844
Cambridge Independent Press

The Church
Ordinations

The Bishop of Lincoln, in the Cathedral on Sunday, the 22nd inst:-
Priests - H.M.Blakiston B.A., Emmanuel; F.Haggitt B.A., St.Peter's; D.I.Heath M.A., Fellow of King's, - all of Cambridge. - - -

The Bishop of Lincoln's next ordination will be held in Lincoln Cathedral, on Sunday, the 22nd of December. Candidates are required to send their papers to his Lordship at Riseholm, Lincoln, before the 10th of November next.

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Monday 14 October 1844
Morning Advertiser.

Police Courts.

Clerkenwell. - On Saturday Thomas Triggey, who described himself as an assistant officer of the Court of Requests, Kingsgate Street, was charged with extorting money from Mrs.Ann Waugh, a poor person, living at No.11 Thomas's Buildings, Somers Town, under the pretence of legal assistance.  - - -

James Wheldan, who described himself as "bailiff" to the Court, said he was appointed by Mr.Sergeant Heath; he said that Triggery executed in the warrants with him, but was not authorised to receive money. Terne was an agent, getting whatever he could; neither Triggey nor Terne had paid him the money received from Mrs.Waugh. Some blank forms were found on Triggey, upon which the bench remarked, after perusing them, "This shows what a nest of iniquity it is; Mr.Sergeant Heath must be shown these; poor ignorant people resort to these courts in moments of distress, and are frightened by designing men out of their hard earnings. " 

Terne treated the thing as a matter of indifference until he was charged with "stealing the money."

The magistrate then sent to request the attendance of Mr.Heath or some other principal official of the Court, to explain its rules and proceedings, but this being found impracticable at the time, the prisoners were remanded till this day.

 

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Moor Place

31 December 1844
My Dear Serjeant Heath,

I have Sir George Cockburn copies of the Papers relating to Lieutenant Leopold Heath and a statement of all the particulars you furnished me with, as to his original prospects and the circumstances by which they were interrupted and I devised to interest him in his (fanard?) to have the papers so placed as to become the subject of reference &c &c. 

The answer is so good humoured and kind that I think it will be satisfactory to you.
May you and yours be as happy as possible for years to come and that will be no more than I wish for you and them.

Always Sincerely Yours, W (Marchfield?) 

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1845
 

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