HEATH, Richard (?1706-52), of Argyle Bldgs., Westminster.

Heath was the grandson of Sir Richard Heath, one of James II’s judges, who purchased the manor of East Clandon in 1692. On his father’s death the manor was sold under a private act of 1718 to pay the debts encumbering the estate. For some years Heath continued to reside in the family mansion at Hatchlands in Clandon, which, heavily mortgaged by him, was eventually sold to Edward Boscawen in 1749.VCH Surr. iii. 345; Manning & Bray, Surr. iii. 47-48; CJ, xviii. 578. He was returned for Bossiney in 1747 by Thomas Pitt as a member of the Prince of Wales’s party and was classed as Opposition. He died 4 Feb. 1752, leaving the Rev. Thomas Yale Caverley, chaplain to the Princess of Wales, as his executor and guardian of his only son, Nicholas.PCC 187 Bettesworth.