About John Heath
Lived 1717 – 1775 (aged 57–58). John Heath was a politician.
John Heath (later John Duke) , of Gittisham, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Honiton 1747–1754 and 1761–1768. He changed his surname from Heath to Duke by a private act of Parliament, (24 Geo. 2. c. 3 ), as a condition of the will of his uncle Richard Duke (Richard VII Duke), at which point he inherited the Manor of Otterton in Devon.
He died on 3 November 1775 without any children, and the Duke estates passed to Robert Duke of Otterton, another nephew of Richard Duke.
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Who was John Heath?
Member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Honiton
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John Heath was born in 1717.
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John Heath was a politician.
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