Theophilus Heale (1816–1885) was a 19th-century British Pākehā settler, later a Member of Parliament from Auckland, New Zealand.
[1] During the 1830s and 1840s, Heale was one of the investors in the failed logging and trading colony established at Cornwallis, New Zealand.
[1] Heale sailed from New Zealand to America to investigate the latest milling techniques, and later to England to purchase equipment for the venture.
[1] By the 1860s, Heale salvaged the boiler from the Cornwallis steam mill and repurposed it for the Kawau Island copper mine.
[2] He had been chief surveyor for the Southland and Auckland Provincial Councils, and a judge of the Native Land Court.