Douglas Denon Heath (1811–1897) was an English barrister and judge, known also as a literary editor, classical scholar and writer on physics.
After school at Greenwich, he spent most of 1826-7 with friends of his father's in France, including his godfather Vivant Denon.
Heath obtained a scholarship at Trinity on 23 April 1830, and two years later graduated senior wrangler, and took the first Smith's prize.
[3] On his father's death in 1852, Heath became the owner of Kitlands, a small estate near Leith Hill, Surrey.
The several manuscripts of Bacon's professional writings were carefully collated, and many passages for the first time made intelligible.
He also published papers on the veracity of Herodotus, and his views were strengthened by a journey up the River Nile as far as Dongola in 1874-5.