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John Benjamin Heath FRS FSA (6 June 1790 – 16 January 1879) was
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from 1845 to 1847.


Early life

He was born the son of the merchant John Heath and grandson of the scholar Benjamin Heath. He was educated at
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Career

Like his father, he became a successful London merchant who was appointed to be Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1842 to 1845, replaced William Cotton as
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and was succeeded in turn by William Robinson. He was elected a
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in 1832 and a
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in 1843. Heath was appointed
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to the
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and in 1867 he was created a
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of the
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. On his death in 1879 he was buried in
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.


Personal life

Heath married Sophia Bland, the daughter of physician Robert Bland and brother of Australian pioneer
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.


See also

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1790 births 1879 deaths People educated at Harrow School 19th-century British merchants British bankers Deputy governors of the Bank of England Governors of the Bank of England Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Society Burials at Highgate Cemetery Barons in the Peerage of Sardinia 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-business-bio-stub