Admiral Edmund Heathcote (29 January 1814 – 24 October 1881) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown.

[1] On 14 July 1844, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Edmund married his first wife, Elizabeth Lucy Law with whom he had two sons.

In 1850, Lucy bore a third child, whose father was not Edmund; the couple were divorced on 9 March 1851, and Lucy appears to have taken their elder son, William (1845-1884), as well as her young child, to Australia, where her child's father had been transported for seven years penal servitude; William and Lucy both died in Australia.

[1] On 19 August 1852, Edmund married Jessie Hill, at St. Paul's Cathedral in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Very soon thereafter, the couple returned to England and settled in Fritham, Hampshire, where their three children were born.