A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Heath, Leopold George

1745482A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Heath, Leopold GeorgeWilliam Richard O'Byrne

HEATH. (Lieutenant, 1840.)

Leopold George Heath entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1831; passed his examination in 1836; and obtained his commission 22 Dec. 1840. He then joined the Impregnable 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, on the Mediterranean station; and on 19 Oct. 1843, he was appointed to the Iris 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, whom he accompanied to the East Indies. During an expedition conducted in July, 1846,. by Sir Thos. John Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find Mr. Heath, on 8 of that month, assisting, as second in command of the rocket-party, at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of that stream, by a force under Capt. Mundy, he led the boats, and by his efficient command of a body of pioneers proved of the greatest utility in clearing the passage of the many overhanging trees and other obstructions with which ite navigation was beset. After the disembarkation of the British at the village of Mallout, he accompanied them in their arduous and fruitless pursuit of the Sultan to a place called Damuan, and again performed valuable service.[1] He has been in acting-command, since Jan. 1847, of the Wolf 18, on the same station.


  1. Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3441, 3444, 3446.