HEATH COAT

John ( son of Francis Heath coat of Long Whatton, Leics., farmer ). b. Duffield near Derby 7 Aug. 1783; a setter up of hosiery and warp frames at Nottingham, at Hathern 1803, at Lough borough 1805; inventor of lace making machinery by patenting a bobbin net machine 1809 which he called Old Lough borough; partner with Charles Lacy 1809–16, partner with John Boden at Tiverton 1816–21; retired from busine 1843; M.P. for Tiverton 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 April 1859; built British schools at Tiverton, opened 1843. d. Bollam house, Tiverton 18 Jany. 1861. W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery (1867) 180–270, portrait ; Bevan’s British manufacturing industries, Hosiery, By W. Felkin (1877) 56–73; Mozley’s Reminiscences, i , 239–42 (1885).