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223:, and widow of Richard Parker. Sir Edmund Prideaux with his newly married third wife Mary Reynell (died 1631) built a new mansion on the site in 1607, which date is inscribed atop the full-height porch, much of which survives in the present building. He was buried in St Michael's Church, Farway, where survives his monument showing his semi-recumbent effigy dressed in lawyer's robes, with effigy of his son below. He married three times:
508:"This fair house of Netherton which Sir Edmund Prideaux built, though no longer fair, is the place of residence of his lineal successor Sir Wilmot - and with him it bids fair to fall to the ground for the mansion and the family will probably perish together. They both totter and to neither is there a prop of support" ... "Surrounded by paltry offices and deserted gardens, its mullioned windows block'd up to save a
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In 1955 the house was being used as a school. During the mid to late 1970s it was used as a school for "supposedly" maladjusted boys. Some did have behaver issues while others had been removed from mainstream education for being more advanced than the average child. From there, boys were mostly sent
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Taunton 1950-56. It was later restored and divided for multiple occupation. The main part of the house, including 4 bedrooms, 5 reception rooms, 4.35 acres of land with tennis court and swimming pool was sold in 2012 for an asking price of £1.5 million.
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Sir Edmund
Saunderson Prideaux, 9th Baronet (1793–1875), brother. Between 1836 and 1844 he restored and rebuilt the house, using the services of the builder W. Lee. He died without surviving male children when the baronetcy became extinct.
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Sir Edmund
Prideaux, 5th Baronet (1675–1729). His only son died in infancy and the baronetcy thus passed to his first cousin. His only daughter and heiress was Anne Prideaux (1718-1760) who married John Pendarvis Basset (1713–1739) of
512:, and deprived of the groves that once overhung it, naked and forlorn, little is the consequence which it possesses, and for ever has it ceased to arrest the admiration of the traveller"
479:(died 1821), who made a watercolour sketch of it (studiously omitting a "modern mean wing which presents its gable-end" which he considered ugly) and recorded in his journal:
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Per stone tablet on east front of house. Jackson-Stops & Staff listing particulars, 2012, "to the design of the architect J. Goldsworthy". The latter is recorded as
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on 17 July 1622. He was the second son of Roger Prideaux (died 1582) of Soldon in the parish of
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Sir Edmund Saunderson Prideaux, 9th Baronet (1793–1875)
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519:Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, 8th Baronet (1791–1833)
471:Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, 7th Baronet (1748–1826)
677:, Exeter, 1895, pp. 616–25, pedigree of Prideaux
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492:Netherton, seat of Sir Wilmot Prideaux, Bart.
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85:The estate of Netherton was a possession of
467:Sir John Prideaux, 6th Baronet (1695–1766)
363:Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet (1626–1705)
324:Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–1682)
463:Sir John Prideaux, 6th Baronet (1695–1766)
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