Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet
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Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet (1655–1730) was an English baronet from Devon. He was by profession a doctor of medicine.[2] His great-great-great-grandson was Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818–1887).
He was the 3rd son of Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet (1628–1688) of Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres, Devon, and later also of King's Nympton, Devon, by his second wife Elizabeth Godolphin (d. 1707), eldest daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin (1605–1667), KB, of Godolphin, near Helston in Cornwall.[3]
Inheritance
In 1709 aged 54 he became the heir to his childless elder brother Sir Francis Northcote, 3rd Baronet (1659–1709), their father's second but eldest surviving son, who had married Anne Wrey, daughter of Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Baronet (1628–1668) lord of the manor of Tawstock, Devon, who had married Lady Anne Bourchier, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (1590–1636), and heiress of Tawstock, seat of the Bourchiers.[4]
Marriage and children
Henry married Penelope Lovett, heiress of Corffe in the parish of Tawstock, daughter and heiress of Edward Lovett (1627–1702) (son of Sir Robert Lovett (1577–1643) of Liscombe House, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1608 or 1610[7]) by his wife Joane Hearle (1642–1709), daughter & heiress of James Hearle of Corffe, Tawstock.[8] Penelope's aunt was Anne Lovett (born 1615/19), the second wife of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (1590–1636), of Tawstock Court, which marriage was childless.[9] Anne married secondly (as his second wife) to Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden (1611–1682). By his wife Sir Henry had the following children:[10]
- Sir Henry Northcote, 5th Baronet (d. 1743) only son and heir, MP for Exeter. He married Bridget Maria Stafford, only daughter and heiress of Hugh Stafford of Pynes[11] in the parish of Upton Pyne,[12] Devon.
- Elizabeth Northcote (d. 1758), who in 1734 at King's Nympton married John Incledon (1702–1746) of the ancient Incledon family of Buckland in the parish of Braunton, Devon, and secondly in 1747 at Braunton to Rev. John Wright.[13]
Death and burial
He resided at Corffe, Tawstock, and died there[14] in February 1729/30 and was buried at Tawstock, in the parish church of which exists his mural monument.
