Michael Heath-Caldwell M.Arch
Brisbane, Queensland
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Eliza Louisa Marsh-Caldwell – known as Louisa – aged 78/79 of Linley Wood
Georgina Marsh-Caldwell – Gies – aged 76/77 of Linley Wood
Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell – Posy – aged 74/75 of Linley Wood
Douglas Denon Heath aged 87
Admiral Sir Leopold Heath – aged 79/80.
Lady Mary Heath – (ne Mary Emma Marsh) – aged 70/71
Arthur Raymond Heath - aged 42/43
Marion Heath – May – aged 40/41 - (Mrs Cotton - widow)
Major Frederick Heath R.E.– (Gen. F.C. Heath-Caldwell) aged 38/39
Constance Helsham Heath (ne Helsham-Jones) aged 28/29
Cutbhert Helsham Heath (-Caldwell) - aged 7/8
Martin Frederick Heath (heir to Linley Wood) - aged 3/4
Cuthbert Eden Heath - aged 37/38
Ada Randolph Heath - aged 36/37 (Mrs Broadwood)
Commander Herbert Leopold Heath R.N. - aged 35/36
Capt. Gerard Moore Heath R.E. - aged 34/35
Wednesday 6 January 1897
Surrey Advertiser
County Ball at Dorking
The most gratifying success attended the annual country ball which took place at the Public Hall last Friday night, the guests numbering over 300. Dancing commenced at ten o'clock and was continued until the early hours of the morning. The hall - - was artistically draped with art muslin of harmonising tints, and lace curtains hung at the windows. Half-circle wall lights, with mirrors reflecting a whole circle, produced a charming effect, and on the wall facing the entrance door appeared the motto "Happy New Year," composed of evergreens on a red ground, worked by the Misses Bovill. - - -
Among those who attended were - - - Mrs Cuthbert Heath and party - - Col. Helsham-Jones and party, Captain Heath, - - - Mrs Herbert Heath - -
Monday 26 April 1897
Dundee Advertiser
Messrs Bentley & Son have in the press a volume of "Letters from the Black Sea during the Crimean War," by Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., also a new work by Mr W. Frewen Lord, author of "The Lost Possessions of England," entitled "the Lost Empires of the Modern World."
Friday 30 April 1897
West Surrey Times
Holmwood
Marriage of Miss E.A. Carols-Perkins.
Considerable interest was evinced in the wedding of Miss Elsie Adelaide Carlos-Perkins, second daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Perkins, of Oakdene,and Mr Herbert F. Bowyer, of Stoke-next-Guildford, which happy event was solemnised in South Holmwood Church on Thursday week. - - - A reception was subsequently held at Oakdene by Mr and Mrs Perkins, invitations having been issued to the following ladies and gentlmene: - - - - Miss Broadwood - - Sir Leopold and Lady Heath, Major and Mrs Heath, Captain and Mrs Heath, Mrs H.Heath, Mr and Mrs C.Heath, - - - - Colonel and Mrs Helsham-Jones - - -
Saturday 1 May 1897
Surrey Advertiser
A meeting of representative managers of Church schools in the rural deanery of Dorking was held at St.Martin's Parish Room on Tuesday to discuss the formation, with the authority of the Bishop, of a Voluntary Schools Association for the diocese. - - - there being also present - - - Admiral Sir Leopold Heath - - - -
6 May 1897
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Introduction to the book “Letters from the Black Sea” by Admiral Sir Leopold Heath
These letters have lain on a shelf untouched and almost unthought of for many years, but, as is the habit of old men, I took them down recently to refresh my memory of the events in which I had taken part during the most stirring times of my earlier life. They interested me much, and I publish them thinking that perhaps they may also interest others.
The earlier letters that is, those previous to February, 1855 describe events occurring whilst I was in command of the “Niger,” or of the “Sanspareil,” and carrying out the ordinary duties of the service; but those of a later date were written whilst I was holding the position of Harbour Master at Balaklava or of Principal A gent of Transports. It will be seen that the series begins with the declaration of war and ends with the fall of Sebastopol.
It will be seen that the series begins with the declaration of war and ends with the fall of Sebastopol. Some few letters have been lost, but none of much consequence, except, perhaps, that which described the battle of Tchernaya, in which victory over the attacking Russians – said to have been sixty thousand strong – was won by the Sardinians, aided partially by ourselves and the French, and, I think, by a few Turks.
Many “Letters from the Crimea” and histories of the campaign have been brought before the public, but I think they have all been written by Officers of the Sister Service and that these are the first from a Sailor’s pen. I have included amongst the Letters a semi-official report upon the loss of the “Prince,” and also two documents and two photographs showing the real conditions of Balaklava Harbour. On both these points the English newspapers used very strong language, but the “Correspondents” of those days were not the steady, history-recording gentlemen who now accompany our armies; they apparently considered that to interest and excite the readers of their newspapers was their only mission.
In the Appendix are two or three documents of interest, and it closes with the despatches from the Duke of Newcastle, after receiving reports of the first bombardment – of the battle of Balaklava – and that of Inkerman. The last-named is extraordinarily eloquent, and one cannot read its many tender and pathetic passages without a strong suspicion that although the pen was that of the Minister of War, the words were those of a more exalted person. What can be more Queen-like than “Let not any private soldier in the ranks believe that his conduct is unheeded – the Queen thanks him – his Country honours him.”
It was my great good fortune to obtain the good opinion both of Admiral Dundas and Sir Edmund Lyons, and I take this opportunity of expressing the gratitude with which I received their many acts of kindness both professional and private.
L.G. Heath
Anstie Grange, Holmwood
May, 1897
Saturday 15 May 1897
Hampshire Telegraph
Admiral Sir Leopold Heath is shortly issuing a volume entitled "Letters from the Black Sea during the Crimean War."
Saturday 5 June 1897
Army and Navy Gazette
There are in the 3rd Class of the Order of the Bath at least twenty-eight names which have appeared there for twenty years and more. To promote these twenty-eight officers would not only be a fitting acknowledgement of their gallant service in the past but would make a similar acknowledgement of more recent services possible. Let us look for a moment at the names of there officers and their services - - - Admiral Heath served in the campaign on the coast of Syria in 1840, where he was mentioned in despatches, and afterwards assisted at operations both in the Baltic and Black Sea, while later on he won his promotion when leading a storming party at the attack on the Peiho forts. - - -
Saturday 26 June 1897
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London)
Reminiscences of the Crimean War. (Bentley)
Already, less than fifty years, the Crimean War has become ancient history, not much less remote in personal interest than the campaigns of Bonaparte and Wellington. True, a few survivors may be found ready and willing to shoulder their crutches and fight their battles o'er again. But the Historic Muse has made up her mind as to the meaning , the necessity, and the result of the engagements of Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, and the siege of Sabastopol. Under the vacillating policy of Lord Aberdeen England drifted into a war for which, after forty years of peace, she was naturally unprepared. - - - Concerning those terrible years, 1854-55, no important facts hitherto unrecorded are likely to come out. All the same, we are able to accord a hearty welcome to the testimony of an eye-witness still spared to this country.
Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath served as Harbour Master at Balaclava, and in that capacity saw a good deal of what occurred at the time. He kept a journal and wrote home long letters, containing his observations on men and things, discussing his chances of promotion and his domestic anxieties. "These letters," he tells us, " have lain on a shelf untouched and almost unthought of for many years, but as is the habit of old men, I took them down recently to refresh my memory of the events in which I had taken part during the most stirring times of my earlier life. They interested me much, and I publish them thinking that perhaps they also may interest others." To that refreshment of the veteran Admiral's memory we own the publication of the forty-six "Letters from the Black Sea, during the Crimean War." They are the first of the kind from a sailor's pen, and well repay perusal, not less for the value of the information imparted than for the pleasant artlessness of the writer's style.
Even at this distance of time Sir Leopold Heath cherishes a grudge against the newspaper correspondents who boldly exposed the follies and short-comings of certain of the commanders, and especially he resents the free criticism to which his own action, as Harbour Master at Balaclava, was subjected.
Yet, strange to say, many of his own opinions on Generals and Admirals, repeated in cold blood as his mature and deliberate judgment, not only coincide with and confirm the language of the correspondents, but go further than a responsible editor would deem it prudent to venture.
Under date of April, 1854, he writes: " I don't know what our troops are about, but our Navy certainly seems to me to be wasting its time." When the Russians were suffered to build earthworks in front of the fortress of Sebastopol, he says; "The thing that strikes all of us most is that we should allow the Russians to build these works and mount their guns without the slightest attempt to check or annoy them."
Could any outside criticism be more damaging to the reputation of a commander? The Lancaster gun, of which great things were expected is described as firing "round the corner" and being "all humbug."
With regard to the charge of the Light Brigade, Captain Nolan appears to have delivered his disastrous messaged "in taunting manner."
Lord Raglan is "apathetic:" "I suppose forty years at a desk, examining little, petty details, must be a bad school for a commander of a large army, who should look at things en grand."
He does not expect the Generals to do anything rash or impracticable: "I should say their fault, if any, lies rather the other way."
Admiral Boxer is "a most hard-working, zealous man, but without the slightest approach to method, and some of his work as in consequence to be done over again. If he wants a ship cleared for any particular purpose he will put her cargo on the beach, without the slightest care as to whose charge it is to go into." No wonder the Admiral adds: "We have learnt much during the war as to our commissariat, &c. but if we ever make such another war without gagging' our own correspondents at the very beginning we shall make a greater mistake than any we have made on this occasion."
With every respect for Admiral Heath, that was the view of both services in the bad old days. There is, however, no occasion to gag the press where Generals know their business and the commissariat is properly administered.
Undoubtedly the British Army fought like Britons in the Crimea, and we have every reason to be proud of them. But not even the agreeable recollections of Sir Leopold George Heath can persuade his countrymen that Sir William Howard Russell, Mr Nicholas Wood, and their confreres in the press, "set down aught in malice," in the letters they wrote home on the mal-administration of the commissariat and the feebleness of the command.
Saturday 26 June 1897
Gentlewoman
Marriage - Mr A.J. Pell to Miss C.M. Greene
At the church of St.Peter's, Thurston on Thursday - - - The following is a list of presents - - - the Misses Marsh-Caldwell, old Bruges brass bowl. - - -
Tuesday 29 June 1897
Morning Post
The Queens Garden Party
Her Majesty the Queen gave a Garden Party yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Serge of Russia and Princess Henry of Battenberg, arrived at Buckingham Palace escorted by a Captain's Escort of the 2nd Life Guards. - - - Arthur Heath - - - Admiral Sir Leopold Heath - - -
Saturday 3 July 1897
West Surrey Times
The Queen's Garden Party.
The garden party at Buckingham Palace on Monday was favoured with Queen's weather, and may be regarded as one of the most interesting and successful incidents of the Jubilee. Buckingham Palace garden, which is so little known to the outside world, is one of the loveliest spots in London, and is admirably adapted for a gigantic garden party. Entering from the top of Constitution Hill or from the southern end of Grosvenor Place, one advances by shady walks with expanses of greensward seen though the trees - - - The official list of guests included - - -Admiral Sir Leopold Heath - -
Globe
Saturday 10 July 1897
New Publications.
Now ready,
Letters From the Black Sea During the Crimean War.
By Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath K.C.B. In One Vol. crown 8vo, with illustrations and Plans, 7s 6d.
Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street.
Friday 16 July 1897
Saffron Walden Weekly News
The Devastation in Essex
The Lord Mayor has received in all about £6,000 for the fund now being raised at the Mansion House for the Essex farmers,which is in addition to some £5,000 locally raised. Among the donations:-- - - - Miss Marsh-Caldwell £25 - - - -
Thursday 22 July 1897
Morning Post
Wanted, as House-maid for the country only (as Upper of two), an active, thoroughly-working Person, with unexceptionable character. - Address, Linley Wood, Stoke-upon-Trent.
Saturday 24 July 1897
Hampshire Telegraph
"Dedicated in my eightieth year to the few survivors of my many friends in the Black Sea Fleet, 1854-1855." Such is the brief preface to an admirably descriptive series of letters written by Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath K.C.B., when he was serving in the Black Sea during the Crimean War, and now first published by Messrs Bentley and Son. The letters begin with the declaration of war and end with the fall of Sebastopol, and as they describe events which passed under the writer's own eyes, they possess not merely a naval but an historical interest. The fact that they were not written for publication, but as a sort of journal of the war for private reference, lends additional value to them.
The earlier letters cover the period when the writer was in command of the Niger and the Sanspareil; while the later ones were penned when he was holding the position of Harbour Master at Balaklava or of Principal Agent of Transports.
The spirit in which the gallant old veteran entered upon the campaign is shown by the description of his arrival at Baljik with the declaration of war . To create a sensation he flew the whole signal, "War Declared March 28," from the mastheads of the Niger, and thus steamed to his anchorage with the fleet. Then the crews manned the rigging and cheered, and, wrote Commander Heath,"I have made myself hoarse with my loyalty, I gave three cheers for the French, three for the Niger, and one more for old England."
The lack of activity shown by the Fleet during the early days of the war was very galling to Commander Heath, who expressed his belief that much good work could have been done had it early operated at Sebastopol and to the East of it. As it was the Niger took a few prizes and captured a few prisoners, who apparently were happy, though dirty, while with their captors. They were distributed amongst the sailors' messes, and an amusing scene is described where an English blue-jacket is searching for his "Rosshan messmate" in order to give him a wash.
The loss of the Tiger on May 12th, 1854, is fully described, and some rather severe strictures passed on the Commander and navigating officer of that vessel.
The next letter of first importance deals with the battle of the Alma, which was witnessed by Commander Heath from the main-top of the Niger, which was lying at anchor within three miles of the fighting ground. The national peculiarities of the fighting line were, he writes, very strongly marked; the French climbed their cliff in loose skirmishing order, the English attacked in lines, and the Russians fought in regular Macedonian phalanxes.
Naval readers will turn with interest to the account of the Naval bombardment of Sabastopol on Oct. 17th, and doubtless share the regret of the writer that the effect was so comparatively trifling.
Other letters describe the battles of Balaclava and Inkerman, and the great gale on November 14th, which resulted in the loss of a large number of transports and two men-of-war.
Shortly after this Commander Heath was appointed Harbour Master and promoted. His work now was of the most important character, and there is abundant evidence that he performed it with zeal, discretion and success.
In spite of this, however, he was subjected to some scandalously unjust criticism in the Times, which might have ruined his career had he not been able to disprove the allegations.
The criticism chiefly referred to the mooring of the great fleet of transports in Balaclava Harbour, but Admiral Heath gives two photographs which prove beyond dispute that the berthing of these vessels, which must have been a task of extraordinary difficulty, was a splendid example of successful pilotage.
Space forbids extended reference to the letters which complete the book, which may be generally described as an interesting and valuable contribution to Crimean literature and is especially welcome as the only account of the war from a Naval standpoint.
A portrait of the veteran Admiral forms an excellent frontispiece.
Saturday 24 July 1897
Surrey Advertiser
Rural Parish Council
A meeting of the Dorking Rural Parish Council was held at the Public Hall on Monday evening, when there were present Mr Barclay J.P., (chairman), Messrs R. Sim, Knight, Hood, and H.H.Chalke; with the clerk (Mr G. Alloway). - - - -Letters were read from owners of adjacent property on the subject of the pond at Betchett Green. - Colonel Helsham-Jones wrote that as far as his property was concerned the pond might be dispensed with, and Mr Stilwell considered that the proposal to fence the pond at the joint expense of the Rural Parish Council and the Holmwood Parish Committee, a reasonable one. The third property owner, Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, wrote to say that he had known the pond to be used by cattle, etc, belonging to copyholders of the manor, and he did not, therefore, think it ought to be filled up. - The further consideration of the question was adjourned until the next meeting - - -
Army and Navy Gazette
Saturday 31 July 1897
Reviews.
Letters from the Black Sea.
The Letters From the Black Sea During the Crimean War, 1854-55, of Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath K.C.B. (Richard Bentley and Sons), were written for the delectation of his friends at home, though with the object that they should be preserved, and, we surmise, ultimately published.
By the nature of the positions he filled in command of the Niger, and as harbourmaster at Balaclava and principle agent of transports, the author saw little of the active operations. His letters do not possess the vivid character and keen interest of some recent Crimean reminiscences, although they are instructive.
We are a little surprised that Sir Leopold Heath did not edit the papers before publishing them. Some of his personal and family concerns can scarcely interest the public, and the relatives of personages whom he harshly criticises will not read with pleasure the judgments he formed haphazard.
Sir Edmond Lyons does not escape criticism, the Admirals Dundas and Boxer far badly at his hands. The letters describe the minor operations in the Black Sea, such as the capture of small Russian vessels which preceded the landing. The dealing with these seems to have exercised the commander of the Niger to some extent, and he tells us that he got into a great fright at Varna through selling a number before the proper court had pronounced them lawful prizes.
We hear of differences between the admirals and others: "I have had Admiral Lyons on board here for six or seven hours, and he did not hesitate in telling me of all the divisions at the council table; they certainly don't seem at all unanimous and it is a great pity Admiral Dudas does not go to England and leave Sir Edmund Lyons the Commander-in-Chief."
Sir Leopold Heath witnessed the battle of the Alma from the maintop of the Niger, and remarks that the streaming away from the Russian rear was a curious sight. He censures the allied generals for not following up the victory, as also for allowing the Russian to throw up their works at Sebastopol unimpeded.
Todleben, he says rather strangely, should have been a railway contractor, since the idea of digging such ditches, and forming so massive a parapet, could hardly have entered anyone's head but that of a Brassey or a Peto.
In the bombardment of the Oct. 17, which was the only active work of the campaign that Sir Leopold Heath saw, his ship was lashed, as a "tower," on the off side of the London, and suffered very little loss.
He describes briefly the successive bombardments, and the actions of Balaclava and Inkerman, without throwing any interesting light upon them. When Captain Dacres, of the Sans Pareil, was invalided, he was appointed in his place, and remarks when he received his appointment as harbourmaster, that he was "a very lucky fellow, and Admiral Dundas a very discerning and disinterested Commander-in-Chief."
This appointment, we take occasion to note, was intimated to him on Nov.23, 1854, and he appears to have been occupied during subsequent days in settling what he calls his domestic affairs and making himself comfortable, for he had a pleasant "suite of apartments, a fireplace for the cold weather, and a warm delightful stern walk all round the stern for warm weather."
He remarks that his grandchildren would never believe he was promoted for the bombardment of Sebastopol on Oct.17 because they would read "that grandpapa was made a post-captain on Nov.13."
We note this remark to show a little of the character of the admiral's reminiscences. He was very much offended with "Our Own Correspondent" for remarking, in the Times, that Balaclava harbour was managed in a "higgledy-piggled, rough-and-tumble" fashion.
He had seen this remark, he says, in the Evening Mail of Dec. 15 to 18. The passage quoted, however, was in a letter of Nov. 25, and it seems to have been quite superfluous to circularise the captains of the transports on Jan.10 following to give testimony as to the satisfactory state of the harbour at the end of November, nor can the memorandum of the same period, in regard to the piloting, berthing, wharfage, and other details of the harbour management be of any value to illustrate its condition at an anterior period.
The admiral was perhaps a little more inclined to censure the correspondents, and to think that on future occasions we should be very foolish if we did not gag them before entering upon a campaign, for the reason that he did not himself feel that "churlish chiding of the winder's wind," nor that want of supplies, which so grievously afflicted those who were not so fortunate as to enjoy comfortable "suites of apartments" on the uplands about Sebastopol
At the same time the author was not unaware of the mismanagement which inflicted so much misery upon our soldiers. Admiral Boxer succeeded him at Balaclava, and he writes that he expected that officer to make a "very pretty hotch-potch" of his business.
The Sabastopol committee does not escape his sarcasm, and it is extraordinary that he can have allowed it to appear in print in 1897 that he thought the evidence "the most wonderful jumble of gossip and second editions of newspaper correspondence that had ever been gathered together before so solemn a tribunal" in 1855.
But he already convinced himself that Sir John McNeil, a member of the committee, was a gobe-mouche.
The whole tone of the book shows that the gallant author never understood the situation, and hence that he fails to appreciate the good that was done in awaking the public to the mismanagement which had been so disastrous. He is quite wrong in saying that Sir Edmund Lyons disapproved the flank march, which he himself thinks to have been an excellent thing. He attributes mismanagement to the officers of some regiments, and cannot understand why one should have gone bodily to "hospital or the grave."
The misfortune was due to the fact, in order that the continuity of front might be kept up, they were encamped on low ground, which was flooded during rain.
It is correct to attribute to Gen. Canrobert the spoiling of the first expedition to Kertch, for the general acted in obedience to positive orders. Sir Leopold Heath's volume is not without defects, but old naval officers will be glad to have it.
Saturday 31 July 1897
Hampshire Telegraph
"Letters from the Black Sea During the Crimean War." by Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.,
To be obtained at Messrs Griffin, Portsea, Price 7s. 6p.
"Even at this distance of time these letters will be read with interest, for they are clear and straightforward in style, and show that the writer possessed a considerable gift of observation." - Times
"The letters are frankly and simply written: full of shrewd and homely observation, of acute and quiet criticism." - Spectator.
"There letters are the first of the kind from a sailor's pen, and well repay perusal, not less for the value of the information imparted than for the pleasant artlessness of the writer's style." - Daily Telegraph.
Thursday 19 August 1897
Morning Post
Wanted, for the country only, a youth of between 16 and 17 years of age as Footman, single-handed under a butler; must have been out before. - Address, Linley Wood, Stoke-upon-Trent.
Saturday 28 August 1897
Morning Post
The South-Eastern Manoeuvres
The Manoeuvres in the Aldershot District have no sooner been concluded than others in the South-Eastern District have been entered upon. At this moment about 13,000 troops are in process of concentration in this West Sussex country. The muster will be completed in the course of tomorrow forenoon and the operations which will cover the whole of the coming week, are being looked forward too with unusual interest. - - -
The Senior Umpire will be Major-General T. Kelly-Kenny, Inspector General of of Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting. The following officers will be on his staff - - - Major F.C. Heath, Royal Engineers - - -
Saturday 11 September 1897
Wallington & Carshalton Herald
Holmwood
Funeral of Miss R.C. Legge. - The funeral of Miss R.C. Legge, daughter of Colonel the Hon. and Mrs Legge, of Holmwood Lodge, who died on Friday at Lichfield, at the age of twenty, took place at Holmwood on Tuesday - - There were also present - - - Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, Colonel and Mrs Helsham-Jones, - - -
Globe.Tuesday
28 September 1897
Deaths.
Heath - On the 25th inst. at Kitlands, Holmwood, Surrey, Douglas Denon Heath Esq., J.P., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for many years Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, in his 87th year.
Wednesday 29 September 1897
London Evening Standard
Deaths
Heath - On the 25th Sept, at Kitlands, Holmwood, Surrey. Douglas Denon Heath J.P., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for many years Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, in his 87th year.
Thursday 14 October 1897
Waterford Mirror and Tranmore Visitor
Fashionable Marriage at Lismore Cathedral
A large and fashionable congregation, including most of the elite of the society of the County Waterford, assembled in Lismore Cathedral, last Saturday, on the occasion of the marriage of Mr Home Charles Montagu, only son of Sir Seton Gordeon, 11th baronet Embo, and Edith, youngest daughter of the late Richard Lesson Marshall, of Callinaferoy, Milltown, Co. Kerry. - - - Amongst those who received invitations were - - - Mr and Mrs Cuthbert Heath - - -
Saturday 16 October 1897
Lincolnshire Chronicle
Lincolnshire Members of Parliament - - -
1886, July - A.R. Heath.C.
Arthur Raymond Heath of Thorpe Hall, Louth, was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath K.C.B., of Anstie Grange, Holmwood, Surrey, and was born 18th October, 1854, educated at Marlborough, and graduated LL.B. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1876. Mr Heath, like the previous Mamber, was a barrister, he having entered the Inner Temple, 6th November 1874. He was called to the Bar, 7th May 1879, and went the Northern Circuit. In 1881he married Flora Jean, daughter of Edward Baxter, of Kincaldrum, Forfarshire. Mr Heath, who was a J.P., for Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire, was M.P. for Louth 1886-92, when he was defeated.
Friday 12 November 1897
Portsmouth Evening News
Royal Sailors Home, Portsmouth. - Return for the week ending November 6th: Beds, 1,109; meals, 850; baths, 269. The Committee beg to thank Admiral Sir L.G. Heath K.C.B., for the gift of a parcel of periodicals. - Thos. H. Williams, Manager.
Saturday 20 November 1897
Surrey Advertiser
Holmwood - The Drainage Problem
A parish meeting was held at the North Holmwood Schools on Thursday for the purpose of discussing the question of the drainage of the Holmwood. In the absence of Mr Barclay, the chairman of the Dorking Rural Parish Council, of which Holmwood Ward forms a part, Captain Hornby was voted to the chair.
There were also present Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, Mr J.W.Palmer (representing Her Grace Lily Duchess of Marlborough), the Rev. C.H.Gould, the Rev. S.C. Lowry, Colonel Helsham-Jones, Colonel Legge, - - -
The chairman observed that the scheme of drainage put forward, or at least one of them, seemed to be on such a gigantic scale, and involving such a heavy expenditure that the people of Holmwood did not see their way to approve of it. The estimate, he thought, amounted to about £5,000, but he was afraid that this would mean a total outlay of from £7,000 to £10,000. - Colonel Helsham-Jones moved "that the meeting adopts recommendation number one of the informal meeting held in July, and is of opinion that a system of main sewers is not required by,and is unsuitable to, the scattered district of the Holmwood."
The gallant Colonel, in a lengthy speech, adduced various arguments which he thought ought to persuade the meeting to accept the resolution. It was clear, he said, that the Dorking Rural District Council had not paid any attention to the above recommendation, but simply called upon Mr Mansergh to report upon the separate schemes submitted. All they had gained so far, therefore, was a condemnation from Mr Mansergh of those schemes. He contended that the Rural District Council did not come before them with a clear record. Having failed to exercise their powers in the past, they had no moral right to force upon the Holmwood a scheme of sewers to remedy, by a costly process, nuisances which they had neglected to suppress in the past.
Mr Webber complained of the hostile attitude assumed towards them by the Rural District Council, and referred to the exclusion of the Press from the Council's meetings as one instance of this (applause). Admiral Sir Leopold Heath seconded the resolution. - The Rev. C.H. Gould explained that the recommendations of the informal meeting had not been ignored - - -
The resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried nem.con. - Admiral Sir Leopold Heath commenced his speech by remarking that he was 80 years of age that day, which called forth loud cheers. He fully explained the circumstances which had given rise to the controversy in which they were now engaged, and alleged that they had been subjected to intolerable tyranny by the District Council, who, he contended, should authorise their officers to make a periodical inspection of the houses to enable them to detect the source of nuisances. He proposed "that a committee of electors be formed in accordance with the first schedule of the Local Government Act, 1894, clause 7-6, to watch over the interests of the inhabitants of the Holmwood in the matter of drainage, and that it should be called the Holmwood Protection Committee, and that the meeting should have power to obtain such professional assistance as they might deem necessary, and to correspond with public bodies in the name of the parish meeting."
- Mr Hoad seconded. - The committee was constituted at follows:
- Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, Colonel Helsham-Jones, Captain Hornby, Messrs Chaldecott and Neston Habershon.
It was also resolved to request the chairman of the Dorking Rural Parish Council to communicate the above resolutions to the District Council,and to request that facilities be given to every ratepayer to inspect Mr Mansergh's plans, as well as those which the District Council have already adopted. - -
Thursday 25 November 1897
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London)
Earth to Earth Burial
The will of Mr Douglas Denon Heath J.P., of Kitlands, Dorking, for many years the Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, who died on Sept. 25 was proved on Nov.6 by Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath K.C.B., the brother: Mr Henry Elliot Malden, the nephew; and Mr Richard Wright, the executors; the value of the personal estate being £7,583 12s 2d.
The testator bequeaths £1,000 each to the two sons of his brother, Mr Dunbar Heath; £200 each to his nephews Herbert, and Gerard Heath, and a few specific legacies.
He devises certain land and cottages at Coldharbour to his brother Admiral Sir Leopold Heath,and the remainder of his real estate to his nephew Mr. Arthur Raymond Heath.
The residue of his personal estate he leaves to his neices, Julia Heath, Mary Anne Heath, Margaret Emma Malden, Emma L. Forbes,and Marion Crofton.
The late Judge Heath desired to be buried in the simplest manner, with "no trumpery, no brick grave, and no further interference with the natural earth to earth than custom should be thought to require. - city press
Friday 26 November 1897
Morning Leader
A Gloomy Talk About "Reformed" Coffins
From time to time well-known persons have yearned for a speedy return to the elements. Amongst the latest was Mr. Douglas Denon Heath, J.P., of Dorking, who was formerly judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, and who died on 25 Sept. last. His will enjoined on his executors that he was to be buricd in the simplest manner, with “no trumpery, no brick grave, and no further interference with the natural earth to earth than custom should be thought to require.”
Curious to know whether the reform movement in funerals was spreading, I called (writes & Leader reporter) upon the London Necropolis Company, whose cemetery is at Brookwood, Woking.
The Courteous young man in the company's office produced for my inspection the "earth-to-earth" coffin. - - -
Thursday 2 December 1897
Morning Post.
Wanted, for the country only, a Youth of from 16 to 18, not less than 5ft. 7in in height as Footman under a butler; must have been in house service previously - Address, Linley Wood, Stoke-upon-Trent.
Saturday 18 December 1897
Wellington Journal
Wanted
Girl (strong, active), Wanted as Under-Housemaid of two - Address, Linley Wood, Stoke-upon-Trent.
Friday 24 December 1897
West Surrey Times
Holmwood Drainage
At Thursday's meeting of the Rural District Council, the clerk (Mr G. Scales) reported that he wrote to Mr Macmorran, Q.C., informing him that the Council had decided to retain him as their counsel in the Holmwood drainage inquiry. He had returned the retaining fee, stating that he had been previously retained by Messrs Deverell and Co., to oppose. - The Rev. C.H.Gould said he saw Sir Leopold Heath, who said the Holmwood Drainage Protection Committee was recognised by the Local Government Board, and was perfectly legal. Under these circumstances he proposed that the Council give the committee the same facilities and information as they gave the Parish Council.
Mr Canter said the Council only furnished the Parish Council with information out of courtesy, and he should oppose the information being given to that self-formed committee. - The resolution was not seconded, and the matter dropped.
Friday 24 December 1897
Staffordshire Sentinel
Talke
St.Saviour's Church - The annual Christmas tree and tea party in connection with the above church was held in the St.Saviour's School on Tuesday. The opening ceremony was performed by Miss Marsh-Caldwell, who expressed great pleasure in witnessing the work done by so many willing members of the congregation. After a vote of thanks to Miss Marsh-Caldwell, the sale of work was commenced, and tea was afterwards served. - - -
Looks like practive map-making by Frederick Crofton Heath, 18th Sept 1887 - near Frimley-.
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