Edgar Horace Heathcote was born in Brooklands, Cheshire, England on 26 May 1882 and studied at Trinity College Cambridge. He was articled to his father, Charles Henry Heathcote (1850-1938) in Manchester. In c.1919 he joined his his father and his brothers, Charles Harold Heathcote (1876-1960) and Ernest Grigg Heathcote (1877-1947), as a partner in the architectural firm Charles Heathcote & Sons. The practice was initially based in Manchester, England, but by 1910 had relocated to London.
He was a Fellow of the Society of Architects (FSA) and in 1925 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).
His address was given as 110 Cannon Street, London and 37 Princess Street, Manchester in 1914; Lloyds Bank Buildings, 53 King's Street, Manchester in 1923 and 1928; and 20 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, London in 1928. Hedied at Priestcliffe, Taddington, Derbyshire on 1 November 1929.
Very many office blocks, warehouses, banks, insurance offices, factories, cold storage and tee factories, works, and houses in Manchester and London district and various parts of the country, for the following: — Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Carborundum Co., Ltd., Alliance Assurance Co., Ltd., Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Co., Ltd., Scottish Amicable Assurance Co., Ltd., Port of Manchester Warehouses, Ltd., Trafford Park Estates, Ltd., National Radiator Co., Ltd., Lightfoot Refrigeration Co., Ltd., Union Cold Storage Co., Ltd., Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Westminster Bank, Ltd., National Provincial Bank, Ltd., etc., etc. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1926]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatteron. London: The Architectural Press, 1926