Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet

[5] He was Member of Parliament for North West Staffordshire from 1892 to the 1906 General Election when he lost in the Liberal landslide to Sir Alfred Billson.

He married firstly, on 12 July 1881, Euphemia Celina, second daughter of Pieter Van-der-Byl, of Cape Town, South Africa, and of Elsenwood, Surrey, England.

They had one daughter who survived her parents and one son, Percy Voltelin Heath, who died unmarried from wounds received in the First World War in France in September 1914.

[9] He married secondly, on 6 February 1924, Mrs Joy Nitch Smith, eldest daughter of John Hounsell, of Stillman Valley, Ogle County, Illinois, U.S.A.

[10][11] He married fourthly, on 6 February 1935, Dorothy Mary (born 1899[12]), elder daughter of Christopher Mortimer Hodgson, of Beech, near Alton, Hampshire, England.