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 in his lifetime to the extent of 100l., and of 10l. in his will, to the hospital in Tothill Fields. It is probable that he was aged 64 when he made his will in July 1627, as he requested that sixty-four mourning gowns be given to so many poor men at his funeral.



HEATHERINGTON, ALEXANDER (d. 1878), mining agent, opened in 1867 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the ‘International Mining Agency,’ with which was associated the ‘Canadian Mines Bureau’ at 30 Moorgate Street, London. He also started at Halifax a monthly paper entitled the ‘Mining Gazette,’ the first number of which appeared on 10 Jan. 1868. He was a fellow of the Geological Society, and a clever statistician. He compiled: Heatherington died at Toronto on 8 March 1878 (Geolog. Mag. new ser. v. 336).
 * 1) ‘The Gold Yield of Nova Scotia, compiled from corrected official records,’ 8vo, London, 1860–9, continued from 1870 to 1874 as ‘The Mining Industries of Nova Scotia.’
 * 2) ‘A Practical Guide for Tourists, Miners, and Investors, and all persons interested in the development of the Gold Fields of Nova Scotia,’ 8vo, Montreal, 1868.
 * 3) ‘A Plea for the Gold Industry of Nova Scotia,’ 8vo, London (1874).



HEATHFIELD,. [See, 1717–1790, general.]

HEATON, CLEMENT (1824–1882), glass-painter and decorator, son of James Heaton, a Wesleyan minister, was born at Bradford, Wiltshire, in 1824. He spent his early years in commerce, but occupied his leisure with drawing. The so-called Gothic revival encouraged him in his twenty-sixth year to begin business at Warwick as a glass-painter and designer. Shortly afterwards he came to London and founded the firm of Heaton & Butler. Though chiefly occupied with glass-painting, he gave the initiative to a new and extensively adopted style of church-decoration. This was essentially Gothic in style, but he combined his own original conceptions with carefully studied motives from natural history, heraldry, early Christian symbolism, &c. He made great use of line-decoration, and as his colouring improved by practice, he acquired a peculiar style, which was much admired at the time. He made many experiments to insure permanent and trustworthy colours for glass-painting and mural decoration, but they were checked by his sudden death in 1882. Among his principal works, many of which were carried out in conjunction with Sir Arthur Blomfield as architect, were the decoration of the chapel at Trinity College, Cambridge, Eaton Hall, the town halls at Rochdale and Manchester, the Mansion House and Merchant Venturers' Hall at Bristol, and churches at Banbury, All Saints, Ascot, West Newton, and Sandringham.



HEATON, MARY MARGARET (1836–1883), writer on art, was the eldest daughter of James Keymer, a silk-printer, and of his wife Margaret, a sister of  [q. v.] Her father was an intimate friend of Douglas Jerrold and other literary men. In 1863 she married Charles William Heaton, professor of chemistry. She died on 1 June 1883. Her first published works consisted of graceful verses for children, written to the designs of Oscar Pletsch; but, though these were very successful, it was to her writings upon art that she owed her reputation. In 1869 appeared her ‘Masterpieces of Flemish Art,’ and in 1870 her ‘Life of Albrecht Dürer,’ the first separate life of that artist published in England. Her extensive reading specially qualified her for dealing with the times in which Dürer lived, and her knowledge of German enabled her to make a more complete and accurate translation of his journal than had appeared before. The success of the book was immediate and lasting, and procured for her the acquaintance of Dr. [q. v.], the first editor of the ‘Academy,’ to which review she was a very frequent contributor from its commencement till a short time before her death. Her ‘Concise History of Painting’ (1873) is the most readable and comprehensive of all short works of the kind, a new edition of which was in 1888 added to Bohn's ‘Artists' Library.’ She also prepared a new edition of Allan Cunningham's ‘Lives of British Painters,’ and wrote several new biographies and some of the most important articles in the new edition of Bryan's ‘Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.’



HEBER, REGINALD (1783–1826), bishop of Calcutta, was born at Malpas, Cheshire, 21 April 1783. The family was an ancient one, long settled at Marton Hall, in