| Authorised form of name | Heath; Sir; Thomas Little (1861 - 1940); civil servant and authority on ancient mathematics |
| Dates | 1861 - 1940 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Barnetby-le-Wold, Lincolnshire, England |
| Date of birth | 05 October 1861 |
| Place of death | Merry Hall, Ashtead, Surrey, England |
| Date of death | 16/03/1940 |
| Occupation | civil servant and authority on ancient mathematics |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Antiquity |
| Activity | Education:
Caistor grammar school; Clifton College; Trinity College ScD (Camb)
Career:
Entered the Treasury (1884); private secretary to Sir Reginald Earle, then permanent secretary; private secretary to successive financial secretaries (1891-1894); assistant secretary to the Treasury (1907); permanent secretary to the Treasury jointly with Sir John Bradbury (1913); became comptroller-general and secretary to the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt (1919); served on the royal commission on national museums and galleries (1927-1929); worked on and published works on ancient Greek mathematics.
Honours:
CB 1903; KCB 1909; KCVO 1916
Memberships:
Mathematical Association (President 1922–3)
British Academy |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1912 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Proposer | Herbert Hall Turner; Robert Stawell Ball; Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich; John Hilton Grace; Henry Frederick Baker |
| Andrew Russell Forsyth; Alfred North Whitehead; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Ernest William Hobson; Henry Martyn Taylor; Ernest William Barnes |
| RSActivity | Council 1920-21;1926-28 |
| Relationships | Parents: Samuel Heath, of Thornton Curtis, Ulceby, Lincolnshire and Mary, daughter of Thomas Little, of Hibaldstowe in the same county.
Brother: Robert Samuel Heath (1858–1931), professor of mathematics at Birmingham University.
Spouse: Ada Mary, daughter of Major Edward Charles Thomas, of Wandsworth Common (2 June 1914 ).
Children: Geoffrey Thomas Heath and Veronica Mary Heath. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 43419
RCN 43420
RCN 43418
RCN 43422
RCN 43423
RCN 43421 |
| OtherInfo | Known for his English translations of the works of Euclid, Apollonius, Aristachus, and Archimedes. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 409-426, plate, by D'Arcy W Thompson |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/7457202 |
| Code | NA6072 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1912/05 | Heath, Sir Thomas Little: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/48/233 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Heath, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 June 1913 |
| NLB/48/243 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Heath, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 3 June 1913 |
| NLB/50/511 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Heath, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 July 1914 |
| NLB/53/40 | Copy letter from [Alfred Bray] Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Little] Heath, K.C.B., FRS, H.M Treasury, S.W. | 20 March 1916 |
| NLB/58/99 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Little] Heath, FRS | 12 March 1920 |
| NLB/57/413 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Little] Heath, FRS, KCB, KCVO | 4 November 1919 |
| NLB/57/41 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Little] Heath, FRS, KCB, KCVC | 8 July 1919 |
| NLB/57/411 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Little] Heath, FRS, KCB, KCVO | 4 November 1919 |
| NLB/59/652 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Little] Heath, FRS | 29 October 1920 |
| IM/002016 | Heath, Sir Thomas Little | 1922 |
| CD/119/1 | Letter from Thomas Little Heath, Treasury Chambers, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society | 27 December 1912 |
| MC/27/163 | Letter from [Thomas Little] Heath, 15 Montpelier Square, S.W, to the [Royal Society] | 8 May 1912 |
| MC/27/162 | Letter from [Thomas Little] Heath, 15 Montpelier Square, S.W, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society | 5 May 1912 |
| MC/34/94 | Letter from [Thomas Little] Heath, 64 Bedford Gardens, Kensington W.8., to Robert Harrison, [Royal Society] | 5 November 1919 |
| MC/29/118 | Letter from [Thomas Little] Heath, Treasury, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 28 July 1914 |
| MS/928/6/3/6 | Letter from Thomas Little Heath, 64 Bedford Gardens, to Andrew Russell Forsyth | 20 March 1931 |