词条 | Sir John Chichester, 4th Baronet |
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Sir John Chichester, 4th Baronet (1689 – 2 September 1740) of Youlston Park in the parish of Shirwell near Barnstaple, Devon was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1740. Early lifeChichester was baptized on 2 January 1689, the eldest son and heir of Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet, MP of Youlston, near Barnstaple, Devon, and his wife Elizabeth Drewe, daughter of Thomas Drewe of The Grange, Broadhembury, Devon. He married Anne Leigh (1695–1723), daughter and heiress of John Leigh (died 1718) of Apse, Newport, Isle of Wight in about 1715. In 1718, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. His wife Anne died in July 1723 and in 1733 he married, as his second wife, Frances Hall, widow of Francis Hall (died 1728) of West Sandford, Crediton, and daughter of Andrew Quicke (1666–1736) of Newton St. Cyres, Devon.[1] Political careerChichester was a Jacobite during the first few years of the reign of King George I (1714–1727) and was in touch with Atterbury’s agents during the plot of 1722. He was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Barnstaple at the 1734 British general election. He voted against the Spanish convention, but made little other impression in Parliament. [2] Death and legacyChichester died on 2 September 1740 and the baronetcy passed to his eldest son John.[1] By his first wife, Anne, he had the following children:[3]
Supplementary material on Chichester's marriagesThe marriage settlement of Chichester and his first wife Anne Leigh, dated 12 October 1715, is held by North Devon Record Office, summarised as follows:[5]
Francis Hall, the former husband of Chichester's second wife Frances is stated as of "West Sandford" [7][8][9] A monument to Francis Hall (died 1728) exists in Newton St Cyres Church. West Sandford was a very large mansion about 2 1/2 miles NW of Crediton, near the ancient Chichester estate of Ruxford, of which a watercolour painting was made in 1797 by the Devon topographer Rev. John Swete. The latter wrote of West Sandford in his Travel Journal in 1797 as follows: "The appearance of this house, built with brick and decorated with white mouldings, is of great respectability. Its contiguous gardens with high walls and large gates and the groves that shelter it on the NE speak it to have been the residence of some person of consequence who had a relish for things of former days and was too advanced in years to adopt the improvements of modern taste. It was long the property and abode of Lady Chichester and by her decease a few years ago became a possession of Sir John Chichester of Youlston, Bart. Beheld in its two fronts from a rising point of the public road it had such extent of building as to possess a degree of magnificence; nor has it less to recommend itself for its situation, having spread out before its windows some of the richest pasture ground in the county. What ingredients of the picturesque, taking advantage of the road as a foreground, may enter into the composition of the scenery, may be collected from the following sketch".[10] This large house appears to have disappeared with little trace, no mention of it being made by Pevsner or Hoskins, the leading modern authorities on such matters. Sources
References1. ^1 2 {{Citation| editor-last=Cokayne| editor-first=George Edward |year=1902 | title= Complete Baronetage volume 2 (1625-1649) | url= http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924092524382#page/n139/mode/2up | volume=2| location=Exeter | publisher=William Pollard and Co| pages=| accessdate = 1 February 2018}} {{s-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{s-bef2. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/chichester-sir-john-1689-1740| title=CHICHESTER, Sir John, 4th Bt. (1689-1740), of Youlston, nr. Barnstaple, Devon. | publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 1 February 2019 }} 3. ^Vivian, p.175 4. ^Vivian, p.175 5. ^North Devon Record Office 48/25/22/4 12 October 1715 6. ^See 48/25/22/3, Will of John Leigh proved 1718 7. ^Burke's Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of GB & Ireland (Quicke of Newton St Cyres) 8. ^Vivian, Heraldic Visitations of Devon, 1895, pp.854–5, Quicke of Newton St Cyres 9. ^Cruickshanks 10. ^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, Vol.3, Tiverton, 1999, p.120 | before = Theophilus Fortescue | before2 = Richard Coffin }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Barnstaple | years = 1734–1740 | with = Theophilus Fortescue }}{{s-aft | after = Theophilus Fortescue | after2 = John Basset }}{{S-reg|en-bt}}{{S-bef| before=Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet }}{{S-ttl| title=Baronet (of Raleigh) | years=1718-1740 }}{{s-aft | after = Sir John Chichester, 5th Baronet }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Chichester, John}} 8 : 1669 births|1740 deaths|Baronets in the Baronetage of England|People from Devon|English landowners|Chichester family|British MPs 1734–41|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies |
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