John Bampfield (c. 1586 – c. 1657)Venning & Hunneyball of

Poltimore Poltimore is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It lies approximately northeast of Exeter. The parish consisted of 122 households and a population of 297 people during the 2 ...

and

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, Devon, England, was a

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for Tiverton in Devon (1621) and for the prestigious county seat of

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(1628-9).

Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Amias Bampfield (died 1626), MP, of

and

, by his wife Elizabeth Clifton, a daughter of Sir John Clifton of

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, Somerset.

Career

He matriculated at

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on 13 July 1604, aged 18. He was a law student at the

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in 1607. In 1621 he was elected a

for Tiverton, Devon. He was elected an MP for

in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51-78. Date accessed: 19 November 2011
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Marriage and children

In 1602 Bampfield married Elizabeth Drake, a daughter of Thomas Drake (d.1605) of Buckland Drake, Devon, and a niece of Admiral Sir

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(d.1596) of

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, Devon. His sister Jane Bampfield married Francis Drake, a brother of Elizabeth Drake.Vivian, pp.39-40; Venning & Hunneyball By his wife he had children including: *Amias Bampfylde, eldest son, who died in Italy without children.Vivian, p.40 *Arthur Bampfield, second son, died without children. *

Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – April 1650) of Poltimore and North Molton and Tamerton Foliot, all in Devon, was an English lawyer and politician. He was one of Devonshire's Parliamentarian leaders during the Civil War. Origins Bam ...

(1610–1650), third son and

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, one of Devon's Parliamentarian leaders during the

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, who predeceased his father. The heir to his baronetcy and paternal inheritance was his eldest son

Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Bt., DL, JP (ca. 1633 – 9 February 1692) of Poltimore and North Molton and Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot, in Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1689 ...

(c. 1633 – 1692). * Francis Bampfield (died 1663/4), sixth son, a Nonconformist minister who died in

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. *

Thomas Bampfield Thomas Bampfield or Bampfylde (c. 1623 – 8 October 1693) was an English lawyer, and Member of Parliament for Exeter between 1654 and 1660. For a short period in 1659, he was Speaker of the House of Commons in the Third Protectorate Parliament. ...

(died 1693), eighth son, MP, briefly

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Sources

Venning, Tim & Hunneyball, Paul, biography of ''Bampfield, John (c.1586-c.1657), of Poltimore, Devon''
published in The

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: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, Cambridge University Press, 2010 * Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 38–41, pedigree of ''Bamfield of Poltimore''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bampfield, John 1580s births Year of death missing Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple People from North Devon (district) English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1628–1629 Members of the Parliament of England for Tiverton Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Devon