Education
His father took a teaching job in Southampton and John attended King Edward VI School, Southampton.
His father took a teaching job in Southampton and John attended King Edward VI School, Southampton.
He helped to established data banks as a tool for conservation policy, both at a national and local level Was chief editor of The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. And help to develop the Heath Trap, a portable moth light used for recording moths at light.
Following service in the army during the war, Heath was employed by the Biological Research Department of Pest Control, near Cambridge from 1947 – 1952.
In 1953 Heath joined the Nature Conservancy and was based at the Merlewood Research Station in Cumbria. In 1967 Heath moved to Monkswood Experimental Research Station where he worked until his retirement in 1982 where he was head of the Biological Records Centre.
John Heath was chief editor of the Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland series, published by Harley Books.