David Heath (radical)

David William Heath (1827 or 1828 – 24 September 1880) was a British Chartist and radical politician.

He formed a partnership with John Buttery, a Tory agent, with Heath specialising in representing trade unions and companies.

He helped organise Jones' unsuccessful candidacies in Nottingham at the 1857 and 1859 UK general elections, then in the 1861 by-election he backed independent liberal Robert Juckes Clifton.

This inspired Heath to enter politics himself, and in 1863 he won the St Ann's ward on Nottingham Town Council as an independent liberal.

He stood in the 1874 UK general election in Nottingham as a Liberal-Labour candidate, with the sponsorship of the local trades council.