1962
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(COMPANY DIRECTOR AND MEAT TRADER)
Born at Hinckley, Leicestershire, on the 18th September, 1905, of Cornish parents.
Educated at the Hinckley Grammar School and later the Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester. He left School in 1923 and commenced farming at his parents' farm. Two years later he took up an apprenticeship in the retail meat trade.
In 1928 he opened his own retail butcher shop and later opened a cooked meat shop in the city. He is a Director of the Leicestershire Butchers Hide Skin and Fat Company and Chairman of the Directors of the Leicester and District Meat Trades Company. He is a copartner in the ownership of a Leicestershire farm.
From 1938 until 1946 he served in the Special Constabulary.
Alderman Heard was first elected to the City Council in 1946 as a representative of the Westcotes Ward. He was High Bailiff of the city in 1960/61 and elected to the Aldermanic Bench in 1961. He was Chairman of the City Farms Committee and introduced the Wanlip Sewage Disposal Scheme to the City Council. He has been Vice Chairman of the Finance and Welfare Committees and has also served on the General Purposes, Public Cleansing and Baths, Education and Markets Committees.
Alderman Heard was Chairman of the North West Leicester Conservative Association for 7 years. He is a life long member of the Methodist Church, Co Chairman of the Leicester Methodist Council, Secretary of the Bishop Street Methodist Trust and a Lay Preacher of that Church.
The outstanding feature of Alderman Heard's year of office was the success of his appeal for the Freedom from Hunger Campaign when the sum of £30,000 was raised for the building of a Farm Institute at Acholi in Uganda.
Alderman Heard married Kathleen Mary Heard in 1932 and has one son and a daughter.
