Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet

Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet (26 January 1852 – 24 December 1942) was a businessman and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

James Heath was second son of Robert Heath (died 1893), a colliery and ironworks owner, of Biddulph Grange, Staffordshire. He was educated at Clifton College.

Heath was an ironmaster and colliery proprietor, who began as a partner in his father's company in 1873, for whom he travelled round the world twice on business.

Following his father's death in 1893, he and his brother Arthur founded a limited company named Robert Heath & Sons to run the concerns, which they sold to the Low Moor Iron Company in 1910. The brothers also founded the Birchenwood Colliery Company at Newchapel near Kidsgrove in 1893, and developed an associated coking and coal by-products business

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. Billson died suddenly in July 1907, but Heath declined to contest the seat.

His father Robert Heath and brother Arthur Heath were also Members of Parliament.

He was also a J.P. for Staffordshire.

Heath played a single first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1882.

He served in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, being promoted Captain in 1876, and honorary Major in 1890. He was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding from 1898 to 1902.

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