Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet

Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – April 1650)[1] was an English politician and lawyer.

Bampfylde was the third son of John Bampfield of Poltimore House and his wife Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Thomas Drake.[2] He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 30 October 1629, aged 19 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1630.[3]

In November 1640, Bampfylde was elected Member of Parliament for Penryn in the Long Parliament.[3] In the English Civil War, Bampfylde firstly showed himself allied with the Royalists,[4] for which he was created a Baronet, of Poltimore, in the County of Devon by Charles I of England on 14 July 1641, but tended then finally to the Parliamentarian side.[4] He sat in the Long Parliament until 1648 when he was secluded under Pride's Purge.[3]

Bampfylde married Gertrude Coplestone, daughter of Amyan Coplestone on 3 May 1637. They had thirteen children, eight daughters and five sons.[2] Bampfylde was buried at Poltimore in Devon and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Coplestone.[5]

Over the 17th century the family's surname changed from Baumfield over Bamfield to Bampfylde.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB1.htm. Retrieved 21 April 2009. 
  2. ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. pp. 306. 
  3. ^ a b c 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51-78. Date accessed: 20 November 2011
  4. ^ a b Hemming, Jocelyn; Peter Howard (2005). A Devon House - The Story of Poltimore. London: Hurst and Blackett. pp. 14. ISBN 1841509353. 
  5. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. pp. 388. 
  6. ^ 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. 376–377. 
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
 (of Poltimore)
1641–1650		 Succeeded by
Coplestone Bampfylde