Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet

Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet DL, JP (ca. 1633 – 9 February 1692)[1] was an English politician and magistrate.

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Background

He was the oldest son of Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet and his wife Gertrude Coplestone, daughter of Amyan Coplestone.[2] His brother-in-law was Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet.[3] He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, befriending during this time Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet.[4] Although his father, whom he succeeded as baronet in 1651, and two of his uncles were considered Parliamentarians, Bampfylde himself was a very active Royalist.[4] Nevertheless he was forced to hide after delivering a petition from Devon's population for more rights to the king's general George Monck in February 1660 and was temporarily imprisoned.[2]

Career

Bampfylde was nominated Justice of the Peace for Devon in 1656 and one year later he became a Commissioner for Assessment.[5] He entered the English House of Commons in 1659, sitting in this year as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tiverton.[5] In 1660, he was appointed a Commissioner of Militia, serving subsequently as colonel of the Devon Militia.[5] Bampfylde became the first High Sheriff of Devon after the English Restoration and toured the Western Circuit as a Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer.[5] He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the latter county from 1661 and worked as Commissioner for Corporations in the following two years.[5] Bampfylde was returned to the House for Devon in 1671 and represented it until 1679.[6] Six years thereafter, he was again successful for the constituency, holding his seat until 1689.[6]

Family

On 16 November 1655, he married firstly Margaret Bulkeley, daughter of Francis Bulkeley and had by her two sons and a daughter.[3] After her death Bampfylde remmarried Jane Pole, daughter of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet at Houghton, Devonshire on 21 October 1674.[3] His second marriage was childless.[3] Bampfyle died of gout at Warleigh and was buried at Poltimore.[7] On his deathbed, he pledged his assembled family to loyalty to the Church of England and to the crown.[4] His oldest son Hugh having predeceased him in for one year, Bampfylde was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson Coplestone.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB1.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2009. 
  2. ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p. 388. 
  3. ^ a b c d Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 139. 
  4. ^ a b c Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson. ed. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 377–380. 
  5. ^ a b c d e Henning, Basil Duke (1983). The House of Commons, 1660-1690. vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 587–589. ISBN 0436192748. 
  6. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Devonshire". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons2.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2009. 
  7. ^ "ThePeerage - Sir Coplestone Bamfylde, 2nd Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p13033.htm#i130330. Retrieved 14 January 2009. 
  8. ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 306. 
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir John Rolle
Earl of Torrington		 Member of Parliament for Devon
1671 – 1679
With: Sir John Rolle		 Succeeded by
Sir Edward Seymour
Sir William Courtenay
Preceded by
Samuel Rolle
Sir William Courtenay		 Member of Parliament for Devon
1685 – 1689
With: Sir Bourchier Wrey		 Succeeded by
Samuel Rolle
Francis Courtenay
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
John Bampfylde		 Baronet
 (of Poltimore)
1651 – 1692		 Succeeded by
Coplestone Bampfylde