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Head, Jervis Alston, son of Raymond Evelyn Head MC, of Balsham, Cambs, and Margaret Lloyd, d. of Rev. Frederick Clements Williamson, Vicar of Ashford, Middx; b. 7 Mar. 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (KS); left July 1936; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936; RA 1939-41 (Lieut.); d. from an accident on active service 15 Mar. 1941.

Jervis Alston Head was born at Cork, Ireland on the 7th of March 1918 the son of Richard Evelyn Head MC and Margaret Lloyd (nee Williamson) of 26b, Golders Way, Golders Green in London and of Balsham in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Tormore School, Deal and at Westminster School where he was admitted as a King’s Scholar on a Mathematics Scholarship from September 1931 to July 1936. He played the part of Dromo in the school production of “Epilogus in Andriam” in 1935. He matriculated for Merton College, Oxford in 1936 where he was an Officer Cadet in the Oxford University Officer Training Corps.
Shortly after coming down from Oxford he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 2nd of August 1939. He was posted to 137 Field Regiment, based at Blackpool and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 2nd of February 1941. By March 1941 the Regiment had moved to Larkhill and he was posted to 501 Battery on the 4th of March 1941.
On the 15th of March 1941, Jervis Head was driving in his Morgan three wheeler car when it struck a road island at Ferndown, at the junction of the Bournemouth and Poole roads to Ringwood in Hampshire. The vehicle overturned and he was seriously injured. He was admitted to the Royal Victoria & West Hampstead Hospital, Boscombe where he died from his injuries at 7pm the same day
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Merton College, Oxford.
He is buried at Durrington Cemetery, Grave 723.

HEAGERS, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

HEALE, JAMES NEWTON, son of James Newton Heale MD FRCS, Winchester, Hampshire, and Agnes Benson; b. 22 Jun 1837; adm. 30 May 1850 (Scott's); QS 1852; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1856, adm. pens. 5 May 1856, scholar 1857, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; MA 1863; ordained deacon 1861, priest 1862 (both Lichfield); Curate, Wombourne, Staffs., 1861-3, Woodbury Salterton, Devon, 1866-9, Sible Hedingham, Essex 1869; Vicar of Swindon, Staffs., 1869; Rector of Addington, Kent 1869-83; Vicar of Orpington, Kent 1883-92; Rector of Harbledown, Kent 1892-9; Vicar of St. Thomas’s, Bethnal Green, London 1899-1908; m. 14 Jan 1868 Isabella Margaret, eldest dau. of John Wingfield-Stratford, Addington Place, Maidstone, Kent; d. 26 Dec 1921.

HEANSWORTH, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1570 (Chapter Muniments).

HEATH, FRANCIS, fourth son of Sir Robert Heath; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1624, adm. scholar 1625, matr. Mich. 1626; BA 1628/9; MA 1632; BD (from Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge) 1640; Fellow, Trinity Hall 1643-7; adm. Inner Temple 1641; Receiver, Eagle Honour and Sussex, Duchy of Lancaster 5 Dec 1662 – successor appointed Mar 1675. [note Francis Heath, “Doctor of Laws”, Brasted, Kent, will proved PCC 31 Jan 1684]

HEATH, GEORGE, elder son of John Moore Heath (qv); b. 27 Mar 1847; adm. 16 Apr 1858 (G); QS 1861; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1865, adm. pens. 3 Jun 1865, matr. Mich. 1865; BA 1869; MA 1873; a mining engineer 1869-89; member, Lloyds’, from 1893; m. 14 Dec 1886 Martha Charlotte, second dau. of Johann Friedrich Schmidt, Crefeld, Germany; d. 1923.

HEATH, JAMES, son of Robert Heath, The Strand, London, the King’s Cutler, and Dorothy --- (IGI); bapt. St Clement Danes 6 Jan 1629 (IGI); adm.; KS in 1644; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, matr. 16 Dec 1646, Westminster Student to 13 Oct 1648, when ejected by Parliamentary Visitors; at The Hague in 1649; adhered to exiled court of Charles II; returned to England and wrote and corrected for publishers and printers in order to support his family; sometimes known as “Carrion” Heath; author, A Brief Chronicle of the late Intestine War, 1661, Flagellum, or the Life and Death of O. Cromwell, the late Usurper, 1663, and other works; m.; d. 16 Aug 1664. DNB.

HEATH, JOHN, youngest son of Robert Heath, Sanderstead, Surrey, barrister, and Anne, dau. of Nicholas Posyer, St. Stephen’s, Coleman Street, London; b. 18 Jan 1590/1; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1607, Westminster Student to 1615, matr. 16 Jun 1610, aged 18; BA 1611; MA 1614.

HEATH, JOHN, son of Thomas Heath, Alderman of Exeter, and his first wife Ann Pyne, Exeter; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1748 (Porten's); KS 1749; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1754 – Nov 1764, Faculty Student 2 Nov 1764 – 12 Jul 1781; BA 1758; MA 1762; adm. Inner Temple May 1759, called to bar 25 Jun 1762; Serjeant at Law 17 May 1775; Recorder of Exeter 25 Sep 1779 – Jul 1780; a Judge of the Common Pleas from 19 Jul 1780; refused knighthood, preferring to remain “plain John Heath”; d. unm. 16 Jan 1816. DNB.

HEATH, RICHARD, second son of Sir Richard Heath, Kt, Baron of the Exchequer, and his second wife Lettice, dau. of Sir George Woodroffe, Kt, Poyle, Surrey; b.; adm.; QS 1703; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1707, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1707, aged 18, scholar 19 Apr 1708; BA 1710/1; MA 1714; ordained deacon 17 Mar 1716, priest 24 Mar 1716 (both Winchester); Rector of East Clandon, Surrey, from 25 Mar 1717; d. 29 Apr 1729.