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BENJAMIN HEATH (1704-1766)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN See also:HEATH (1704-1766)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar and bibliophile, was See also:born at See also:Exeter on the loth of See also:April 1704 . He was the son of a wealthy See also:merchant, and was thus able to devote himself mainly to travel and See also:book-See also:collecting . He became See also:town clerk of his native See also:city in 1752, and held the See also:office till his See also:death on the 13th of See also:September 1766 . In 1763 he had published a pamphlet advocating the See also:repeal of the See also:cider tax in See also:Devonshire, and his endeavours led to success three years later . As a classical scholar he made his reputation by his See also:critical and metrical notes on the See also:Greek tragedians, which procured him an honorary See also:Thomas More was right and See also:Henry VIII. was wrong in their attitude towards the claims of the papacy and the See also:Catholic See also:Church . He was therefore necessarily deprived of his See also:arch-bishopric in 1559, but he remained loyal to See also:Elizabeth; and after a temporary confinement he was suffered to pass the remaining nineteen years of his See also:life in See also:peace and quiet, never attending public See also:worship and sometimes See also:hearing See also:mass in private .

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