W J R Heath had two years on the board of directors of Exeter City in the mid-1950s until his sudden death at the age of fifty.

William Heath, born in Devonport in 1906, was associated with the Grand Hotel in Plymouth and had been a Plymouth Argyle director earlier in the 1950s.

After his election to the City board in 1954, he died two years later having been admitted to hospital in Plymouth with a serious illness.