Sir John Edensor Heathcote, (c1757 – 1822) was a Stoke on Trent industrialist and owner of Longton Hall in Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

 which he rebuilt in 1778.

He was born in Longton Hall, the son of Michael and Rachel Heathcote. He married in 1780 Anne Gresley (1755–1797} in Knypersley, Staffs, the daughter of Sir Nigel Gresley, 6th Baronet

Sir Nigel Gresley, 6th Baronet

Sir Nigel Gresley, 6th Baronet was an English land-owner, mine-owner and the builder of Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal.Gresley was the son of Sir Thomas Gresley, 4th Baronet and his first wife Dorothy Bowyer, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, 4th Baronet. He succeeded his brother who died of smallpox...

 of Drakelow and Elizabeth Wynne.

He was knighted in 1784, the year in which he served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire

High Sheriff of Staffordshire

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He died in 1822, his estate passing to his son Richard Edensor Heathcote

Richard Edensor Heathcote

Richard Edensor Heathcote was a British industrialist. Born the son of Sir John Edensor Heathcote of Longton Hall. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Coventry in 1826 and rebuilt Apedale Hall, near Newcastle, in Staffordshire, at about the same time. He died in Genova, Italy, in 1850...

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