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his own decease, to "my grandson George Luxton, son of Thomas Luxton and Elizabeth his wife, my daughter, of Winkleigh, Esq.," with remainders to " my granddaughter Elizabeth Luxton, sister of the said G. L.," and "my granddaughter Mary Luxton, younger sister of the said G. L." He leaves Tarr Mill in S. T., immediately after his decease, to "my grandson George Hunt Clapp, son of Robert Clapp and Mary his wife, my youngest daughter, of Ottery St. Mary, gent.," with remainders to " my grandson Francis Hunt Clapp," and others.
25: 686:"The original building account for Stickwick survives, showing that Robert Hole 'begun to lay the foundation' on 18 May 1780; most of the work was completed by January 1782, but the final bill was not paid until 25 October 1785. Chimneypieces were provided by Mr Robinson of Chudleigh. The parlour and parlour chamber were hung with paper. The roof was slated from the first. Lime ashes were used for the floors. Cost £591-10-8" (Listed building text 199: 291: 636:, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol.1, pp.102-3. Swete notes that at the time of his visit to Sandridge in the company of Sir Robert Palk, his host was then plain "Mr Dunning", placing the date before 1782 (a year before his death) when he was raised to the peerage, but also long before the building of the mansion at Park 314:
William Hole (1799-1859) of Stickwick (in the parish of Bovey Tracey, 2 miles north-east of that town), purchased the nearby estate of Parke in 1825. He was the only son and heir of Robert Hole (1742-1822) who built Stickwick in 1780-2, (son of William Hole (1701-1779) of Crownley, in the parish of
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in London. His inscribed mural monument survives in Bovey Tracey Church. His origins are revealed by the will of his grandfather George Hunt (d.1768) of Northwick, signed 31 October 1766. He leaves all his freehold lands and tenements in the parishes of North Bovey and Throwleigh, immediately upon
375:. In 1905 he married Mildred Bingley, daughter of Rev. John Bingley of Woodford, Torquay, by whom he had an only daughter and sole heiress (Mildred) Geraldine Hole (1908-2008), who in 1939 married Fleetwood Hugo Pellew (1910-2008) of Coppelia House, Moreton Hampstead, Devon (2nd cousin of 159:, who served as Steward of the Stannary Court of Ashburton, Devon. He died aged 56 when the roof of Chagford Stannary Courthouse collapsed, killing him and nine others. His "sumptuous" monument with an effigy survives in Bovey Tracey Church. 319:, Devon. He was educated at Harrow and in 1822 married Susan Kitson (d.1895), eldest daughter of Rev. William Kitson, of Shiphay, Devon. In 1826/28 he demolished the ancient house at Parke and rebuilt it as the present surviving house. 393:
Several inscribed mural monuments to the Hole family of Parke, Stickwick and Crownley, survive in Bovey Tracey Church, also the east and south windows of the Lady Chapel, donated by the family.
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Bovey Tracey, by his wife Anne Blatchford, daughter of Theophilus Blatchford) by his wife Anne Pitts (d.1809), a daughter of Joseph Pitts of Kiln in the parish of
54: 351:. He died in a horse-riding accident on 7 February 1903. In 1905 his widow presented a stained glass window to Bovey Tracey Church in his memory, depicting the 215: 253:, to which shortly after his acquisition of that manor he had "added a room or two". This farmhouse he enlarged and transformed into a house called 467: 578: 245:(1731–1783), but he appears to have confused it with a farmhouse called "Park" (7 miles south-west of Parke, Bovey Tracey) within his manor of 226: 687: 376: 853: 645: 242: 94: 310:
Monument in Bovey Tracey Church to William Hole (1701-1779) of Crownley, Bovey Tracey, grandfather of the rebuilder of Parke House
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Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1137, pedigree of
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Park (to be distinguished also from Stickwick near Hennock, 2 miles north-east of Bovey Tracy, a seat of the Hole family).
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building situated 1/2 mile west of the centre of the town of Bovey Tracey and on the opposite side of the
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Hole, M.A. (apparently Mildred Ada Bingley, wife of William Gerald Hole (d.1974), owner of Parke),
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Pevsner suggests that Parke, Bovey Tracey, was a seat of the prominent lawyer and politician
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He bequeathed the Parke estate, comprising the house and 239 acres, to the National Trust.
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heard in the Star Chamber in June 1608, recorded in STAC 8/142/11, National Archives, Kew
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Volume IX, (January 1916 to October 1917), p.24
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It was the seat of George Hunt Clapp (1756-1824), a barrister and a bencher of the
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William Stawell (c. 1651 – 1702), son and heir, of Parke, was elected nine-times a
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Sir John Stawell (1625-1669) of Parke, a counsellor-at-law. In 1653 he purchased
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Major William Gerald Hole (1881-1974), son, who was educated at Winchester and
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biography of "STAWELL, William (c.1651-1702), of Parke, Bovey Tracey, Devon"
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Parke House in 2009, as rebuilt in 1826/8 by William Hole (1799-1859)
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Mural monument to George Hunt Clapp (1756-1824), Bovey Tracey Church
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of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.467, pedigree of Hele
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in Devon, due to his patronage derived from his ownership of a
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for the National Trust (Report - Survey), SDV339545, 1996.
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of the manor and borough of Ashburton. He died unmarried.
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in Devon, England. The present mansion house known as
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Bovey Tracey
grade II listed
River Bovey
Dartmoor National Park
Nicholas Eveleigh (died 1618)
junior barrister
Elize Hele
Fardel
Cornwood
Plympton Grammar School
Hele's School

Torre Abbey
Member of Parliament
Gloucestershire
Member of Parliament
Ashburton
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John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton

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