Herbert Heath

Admiral Sir Herbert Leopold Heath, (27 December 1861 – 22 October 1954) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1917 to 1919.

Military career Born the son of Vice Admiral Sir Leopold Heath and educated at Brighton College, Heath was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1874. In 1877 he took part in an engagement with the Peruvian rebel ship Huáscar. He was on board the battleship, , when it was involved in a collision with the battleship, , and sank in 1893 with the loss of 372 lives. He led a party that tried to patch the hole in Victoria, but the ship was sinking too quickly for repairs. and later that year was appointed Assistant-Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty. In 1904 he was made commanding officer of the torpedo boat depot ship, , in the Mediterranean. In 1912 he was appointed Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard remaining in that post until 1914. In 1917 he became Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. After the war he was made Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland. He retired in 1922.

Family In 1891 Heath married Elizabeth Catherine Simson and they went on to have two daughters.