John Davie (1612 - 1678)

Born 1612 in Sandford, Devon, England

Ancestors

Died 1678 at about age 66 in Devon, England

Biography

John was born in 1612. He was the son of John Davie and Julian Strode.

He matriculated to Exeter College, Oxford University on 2 Dec., 1631, aged 19.^[1]

He became the 2nd baronet, served as sheriff of Devon in 1671, and M.P. for Tavistock May-Dec., 1661.

John married four times as follows, but left no surviving male children:

• Firstly to Eleanor Acland, daughter of Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet (c. 1591 – 1647), of Columb John, Devon, by his wife Elizabeth Vincent, daughter of Sir Francis Vincent, 1st Baronet. Without children.
• Secondly, in or before 1645, to Triphena Reynell (died 1659), daughter of Richard Reynell, MP, of Lower Creedy, Devon, and widow of Nicholas Hunt of Chudleigh, by whom he had one son and one daughter: John Davie (died 1668), who predeceased his father and died unmarried. Tryphena Davie (died 1668)
• Thirdly, in 1661, to Margaret Glanville (1628–1670), daughter of Sir Francis Glanville, MP, of Kilworthy, near Tavistock, and widow of William Kelly of Kelly, without children.
• Fourthly to Amy Parker, daughter of Edmund Parker (1613–1691), of Boringdon Hall, Plympton St Mary, Devon, ancestor of the Earls of Morley of Saltram House, and widow of Walter Hele of South Poole. Without children. She made a third marriage to Sir Nicholas Slanning, 1st Baronet.

He passed away in 1678.

Sources

1. ↑ ‘Dabbe-Dirkin', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 366-405. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp366-405 [accessed 29 July 2020].

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Davie,_2nd_Baronet