Humphrey Sydenham (1694–1757)
Humphrey Sydenham (24 October 1694 – 12 August 1757), "The Learned", of Combe, Dulverton in Somerset, and of Nutcombe in Devon, was a Tory MP for Exeter, in Devon, between 1741 and 1754. Origins Humphrey Sydenham was the eldest son and heir of Humphrey Sydenham (1672–1710) of Combe, which family had long been seated at that place, by his first wife Eliza Peppin, daughter of George Peppin of Old Shute, Dulverton, which family after 1858 developed the Peppin Merino breed of sheep in Australia. Career He was a lawyer trained at the Inner Temple. Horace Walpole called him "a mad High Church zealot" though on another occasion he wrote that Sydenham was "an honest devout gentleman, who always talked out of the Common Prayer Book". He was temporarily ruined by the South Sea Bubble of 1720, in which he lost £20,000. St Barbe inheritance His financial situation was restored by a large inheritance from his great-great-uncle Sir John St Barbe, 1st Baronet (died 1723), MP, of Broadl ...
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