Heath, Benjamin
Record IDcnp00959811
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Biographical Data1704 - 1766
Place of BirthExeter, GB
Place of DeathExeter, GB
Last Edit2024-02-08
General Note
Critic and book collector. Born Exeter 1704. Educated Exeter Grammar School, student of Middle Temple 1721 and 1729. Grand tour 1730. Settled in Exeter on his return, began book collecting. Published An Essay towards a Demonstrative Proof of the Divine Existence, Unity, and Attributes, 1740. Town Clerk of Exeter 1752. D.C.L., Oxford, 1762. Published The case of the county of Devon with respect to the consequences of the new excise duty on cyder and perry, 1763, and is attributed with the repeal of the duty in 1766. Died Exeter 1766. His daughter Louisa married in 1775 Joseph Drury, father of Henry Drury.
A aussi écrit en latin
Classiciste, helléniste. - Bibliophile
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Further Biographical Data1704-1766
1704-1766
10.04.1704-13.09.1766
1704-1766
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)English
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Place of Activity
Place of BirthExeter, GB (1704)
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Lieu de naissance
Place of DeathExeter, GB (1766)
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Lieu de mort
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HeadingHeath, Benjamin
used in: The University of Aberdeen Library
used in: The University of Aberdeen Library
Heath, Benjamin
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Heath, Benjamin
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Heath, Benjamin
used in: Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany); Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany; British Library: English Short Title Catalogue - AACR2 Heading, London (United Kingdom)
used in: Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany); Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany; British Library: English Short Title Catalogue - AACR2 Heading, London (United Kingdom)
Variant NameHeath, Benjaminus
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Found inProv. Reg. Notes (See Fletcher, W. Y. English book-collectors. 1902. p208). — LOC. — A revisal of Shakespear's text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered / [by Benjamin Heath], 1765. — Notae sive lectiones ad tragicorum graecorum veterum : Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis quae supersunt dramata deperditorumque relliquias / auctore Benjamino Heath, 1762. — BN Cat. gén.. — DNB. — GK55. — DNB. — NUC. — NMT
Imprint SourcesHeath, Benjamin: Notae sive lectiones ad Tragicorum Graecorum veterum Aeschyli, Sophoclis*. - 1768
Heath, Benjamin: Notae sive lectiones ad tragicorum Graecorum veterum, Aeschyli, Sophocli*. - 1762
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, LLD, Town Clerk of Exeter for 14 Years.jpg)
Benjamin Heath (d.1766), LLD, Town Clerk of Exeter for 14 Years
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[Robert Edge Pine / Exeter Guildhall -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin Heath (d.1766), LLD, Town Clerk of Exeter for 14 Years.jpg]
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