Edgar Horace Heathcote

• Born      26 May 1882 at Brooklands Cheshire
• Married : 1906   Winifred Mary Eliza Lomax
• Died       1 November 1929
• Burial     5 November 1928 at Taddington, Derbyshire

The third son of Charles Henry Heathcote, Edgar Horace Heathcote, was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded his BA in 1904 and MA degree in 1907. He trained as an engineer at the Cambridge School. Assoc M Inst.E.E. A.M.I.Mech.E. LRIBA 1910. He was a member of Charles Heathcote and Sons for his entire professional career. 

A keen volunteer, he received a commission in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters in 1900 transferring to 2^nd Volunteer Battalion Manchester Regiment where he was promoted Captain in 1905. In the First World War he went to France with the 6th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) being promoted Major in 1915 and acting for a time as its second in command. He fought at Neuve Chapelle and Loos and was invalided in 1916. Later he did much useful work under the Ministry of National Service.

Edgar Horace Heathcote, who was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1925) and other kindred bodies, was from 1922 to 1923 a member of the Buxton Town Council.  He died on 1 November 1929 at Priestcliffe, Taddington, Derbyshire and was survived by his wife, a son Edgar Ronald (qv) and a daughter.

Address
1903-1911 37 Princess Street, Manchester
1913 64 Cross Street Manchester and 110 Cannon Street London
1919 Edgar H., Heathcote MA, MSA., Assoc M Inst.E.E. A.M.I.Mech.E. (Charles Heathcote & Sons) Lloyds Bank buildings, King Street, Manchester

Residence
1907 Henbury Cheshire
1911 Essex
1925-1929 Edgar Horace Heathcote FRIBA Priestcliffe Taddington, Derbyshire,

Obituary : Manchester City News 9 November 1929 Page 12 Column 4
Obituary : Manchester Guardian 8 November 1929 page 17
Reference : Manchester Guardian 24 June 1930 page 17 – recent wills}
Reference : Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Volume 2 edited by John Venn