Born: 1863 and died 1946.
Son of: Henry Charles Heath (1829-1898) and Georgina Woodcock (1838-1891).
Brother of:
1. Sir Henry Frank Heath (1863-1946) who married 1st, in 1892, Antonia Eckerstein (1868-1893) and 2nd, in 1898, Francis Sayer (1874-1939).
2. Mabel Heath (1865-????).
3. Constance Fanny Heath (1866-1940) who married, in 1888, Prof Arthur Green (Prof of Chemistry).
4. Ernest Dudley Heath (18667-1945) who married 1st, in 1903, Ellen Green, and 2nd, Mary Gilbertson.
5. Elvina Heath (1869-????).
6. Charles Heath (1870-1870).
7. Leopold Heath (1872-1902).
8. Florence (1874-1937) who married ?
9. Arthur Heath (1875-1875).
10. George Heath (1876-1877).
11. Winifred Marion (1880-????).
Lionel married: in 1903, Margaret Forsyth (1879-1939).
Lionel and Margaret had issue:
1. Air Marshall Sir Maurice Lionel Heath (1909-1998) who married 1st in 1938 Kathleen Gibson (1915-1988, known as Mary) and 2nd, in 1989, Ethel Dutton (1905-1996).
2. Margaret Jean Harris (nee Heath, then Lightbody, 1913-2000) who married 1st in 1940 Robert Lightbody and 2nd, in 1962, Norman Harris (1910-1994).  Jean died 17 March 2001.

Overview of: Lionel Heath (Hugh)

The following note on Lionel Heath was from a brief address to the Art Workers Guild given by his brother Dudley Heath in 1938 shortly after Lionel had died.  The note reads as follows:

My brother Lionel was a pupil of our father, Henry Charles Heath, miniature painter to Queen Victoria.   My brother for many years had great success as a miniature painter and exhibited for a long succession of years at the Royal Academy and other exhibitions.   He was at that time, one of the very few miniature painters who did much to raise the art to a level akin to its earlier traditions of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

In 1911, he was appointed vice-principal of the Mayo School of Arts and Crafts at Lahore; and two years later he became principal.  The post carried with It the Curatorship of the Lahore Museum, which in earlier years had been in the charge of Lockwood Kipling, and is Immortalised by Rudyard Kipling In "Kim."  To quote the Times notice: " He did great work in encouraging the study In the Punjab of both the Fine and Industrial Arts."  Since his retirement In 1930 he has given valuable service as member of council of the Indian society. In the organisation of the recent exhibition of Modern Indian Art, held In London, which was opened by H.M.the queen, then Duchess of York.

Since his retirement he has devoted much time in reconstructing with his own hands, the Interior woodwork of his house at Walton-on-Thames, and planning one of the most graceful gardens,   warden planning was his hobby.  My brother was an artist and craftsman in everything he did, and he never expressed himself to greater advantage than when doing, things to beautify his home and garden.

The above notes were found in the family records collected by Ian Heath (1921-2004), son of Dudley Heath

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