Sir robert heath biography examples

1 mems of cj heath ed ep shirley, (philobiblon soc misc i), 7, 18; wr prest, rise of the barristers, 367-8; reg tonbridge sch from 1553 to 1820 ed wg hart, 121; al cant; i temple

4 list of escheatorscomp ac wood (l and i soc lxxii), 71

2 shaw, knights of engii 176

3cave-brown, 37

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heath, Robert (1575-1649)

HEATH, Sir ROBERT (1575–1649), judge, son of Robert Heath of Brasted, Kent, a member of the Inner Temple, by Anne, daughter of Nicholas Posyer, was born at Brasted on 20 May 1575, and educated at Tunbridge grammar school and St.

John's College, Cambridge, which he entered on 26 June 1589, and where he spent three years, but took no degree. In 1591 he entered Clifford's Inn, and on 23 May 1593 the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1603. He was reader at Clifford's Inn for two years (1607–9), was appointed clerk of the pleas in the king's bench for life in 1607, and on 7 July 1612 had a grant in trust for Robert Car, viscount Rochester, afterwards Earl of Somerset, of a moiety of the office of chief clerk of the inrolments in the king's bench, with a twelfth of the emoluments in reversion expectant on the death of the then holder, Sir John Roper.

When Roper was raised to the peerage as Lord