| 词条 | John Moore-Stevens (MP) |
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Moore-Stevens was the son and heir of Thomas Moore-Stevens (1782-1832). He had been brought up in the expectation of becoming the heir of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750-1842), of Stevenstone,[2] who died childless and was his great-grandmother's nephew. However, Lord Rolle instead left his fortune to Hon. Mark Trefusis, who changed his name to Mark Rolle (d.1907), the nephew of his second wife Louisa Trefusis, a daughter of Baron Clinton. He married in 1850 Elizabeth Anne Johnson, daughter of Rev. Peter Johnson.[3] Moore-Stevens rebuilt Winscott in 1865, immediately following his inheritance. He served as a JP on the Quarter Sessions Court of Devon, and Winscott House was built with its own "Magistrate's Room" with a separate entrance. He was especially reactionary and old-fashioned and at the Mid-Summer sessions of 1882 had declared his object was "to get rid of traction-engines altogether".[4] On the abolition of the Quarter-Sessions in 1889 he was the only former JP to have been defeated by a non-magistrate in the elections for councillors to the new replacement governing body of the Devon County Council.[5] References1. ^Fox-Davies, A.C., A Directory of Gentlemen of coat-armour, Volume 2, page 87 {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore-Stevens, John (MP)}}2. ^Harrison, E.M., History of the Church at Otterton (church leaflet), 1982, p.29 3. ^Fox-Davies 4. ^Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959, p.194 5. ^Hoskins, p.194 4 : 1818 births|1903 deaths|UK MPs 1880–85|People from Devon |
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