Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet | |
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| Member of Parliament for Penryn | |
| In office November 1640 - ? | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1610 England |
| Died | April 1650 (aged 40) |
| Spouse |
Gertrude Coplestone (m. 1637) |
| Children | 13 |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Francis Drake (great-uncle) Amias Bampfield (grandfather) Francis Bampfield (brother) Thomas Bampfield (brother) |
| Education | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | Royalists (initial) Parliamentarians (later) |
| Commands | Devon Trained Bands Regiment |
| Conflicts | English Civil War |
Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – April 1650)[1] 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.[2]
Bampfylde was the third son of John Bampfield of Poltimore and North Molton in Devon, by his wife, Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Thomas Drake[3] (d. 1610) of Buckland Drake, a brother of the great Admiral Sir Francis Drake (1546–1596). Over the 17th century the family's surname changed from Baumfield to Bamfield to Bampfield to Bampfylde.[4]
Education
He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 30 October 1629, aged 19 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1630.[5]
Career
In November 1640 Bampfylde was elected a Member of Parliament for Penryn, Cornwall, in the Long Parliament.[5] In the Civil War Bampfylde firstly allied himself with the Royalists,[6] for which he was created a baronet, of Poltimore, in the County of Devon by King Charles I on 14 July 1641. He later sided with the Parliamentarian side,[6] commanding a regiment of the Devon Trained Bands.[7] He sat in the Long Parliament until 1648 when he was secluded under Pride's Purge.[5]
Marriage and children
On 3 May 1637 Bampfylde married Gertrude Coplestone (d. 1658), a daughter of Amias Coplestone (1582–1621) of Copleston in the parish of Colebrooke and of Warleigh House in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, both in Devon. She was a co-heiress to her brother John V Coplestone (1609–1632), and inherited amongst other properties the manor of Tamerton Foliot, which thus passed into the Bampfylde family. The Bampfylde family used Warleigh House at Tamerton Foliot as a secondary seat. By Gertrude, he had thirteen children, eight daughters and five sons.[3]
