James Heath the Engraver 1757-1834
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- 8th June 2025
James Heath came from a family who were involved in the book trade, his father George Heath being a book binder and his grandfather Joseph Heath being a “Stationer”. Joseph also ran a “Circulating library” renting out books to paying customers.
In 1771, at the age of 14, James was apprenticed to the engraver Joseph Collyer and from 1779 James started to produce his own engravings with his name on the plate. He quickly developed a reputation for quality reproductions and he became an Associate Member of the Royal Academy. Most of his productions were small illustrations for books but he also completed a number of large topographical productions including the Death of Nelson.
His son Charles followed on in the business and was a founder of Perkins & Heath which went on to become Perkins Bacon & Company, the printers of the first postage stamp in 1840 (the “Penny Black”).
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I was born and brought up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. After studying physics at University I left on a working holiday and came to the UK where I took up a job as an electronics engineer with Marconi Radar Systems Ltd. The company was based in Chelmsford but I was in the Field Services Dept and my work took me to Portsmouth for a few years and then Egypt and the Sultanate of Oman.
I continued to work in the British electronics industry throughout the 1980s and 1990s after which I changed careers and became an internet entrepreneur founding the company Local Surveyors Direct which is a family of price comparison websites for Building Surveys and other property services (www.localsurveyorsdirect.co.uk).
I have always been interested in family history and history generally and have written a book History of the World. I have also written a book about the 1960s & 1970s and a book about the 1980s. More info can be found on my website www.jjhc.info .
My other regular activity is as a member of Winchester Rotary Club where I am one of the organisers of the Clarendon Marathon (www.clarendon-marathon.co.uk).
I prefer giving talks in person. Happy to travel to most places in the South of England. I will also give talks online.
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- A light overview of the English in India from the early 1600s through to 1947
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- The Life of Adm Sir Leopold Heath (1817-1907)
- Two Years in the Sultanate of Oman 1982-1984
- Growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s
- Becoming a Grownup in the 1980s.
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