28-513: Luxmoore , also Luxmore , is an English language surname. Notable people with these names include: The Luxmoore family was prominent in Stafford, Dolton Stafford, Dolton Stafford (anciently Stowford ) is an historic manor in the parish of Dolton in Devon , England. The present manor house known as Stafford Barton is a grade II* listed building. A house of some form has existed on
56-500: A human skull dated from the mid 19th century. These amusements are believed by Haigh to have been the work of Charles Luxmoore, with the various objects obtained during his extensive explorations. The Croxton family stayed until 1965. From 1969 Stafford Barton was owned and occupied by the German-American harpsichord builder Wolfgang Zuckermann , who had "run away from America". He sold his harpsichord business and emigrated from
84-700: A penchant for building secret panels and cupboards, discovered later on by subsequent owners (see below). From his explorations Luxmoore brought back tropical plants, which he grew in the mild Devon climate. He kept a prestigious historical harpsichord made by the 18th century Italian builder Vincentio Sodi. Luxmoore had a large family by his wife Rosalie Maud Acworth Ommanney, a grand-daughter of Henry Mortlock Ommanney (1816–1880), discoverer, surveyor and namesake of Mortlock River , Western Australia and relative of Admiral Sir John Acworth Ommanney (1773–1855) Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Several of his sons had distinguished naval or military careers. The estate remained in
112-612: Is situated in the French department of Somme . He is apparently the same man as "Ansgar the Breton" who held other estates in Devon and Somerset from Robert, Count of Mortain , half-brother of William the Conqueror , in Devon namely: Buckland Brewer , East Putford, Bulkworthy and Smytham. Staford was in the historic Hundred of North Tawton. The manor was called "Stowford" during the mediaeval era, and
140-555: The Board of Inland Revenue , and a Justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant in Devonshire . On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the third Earl. He was the youngest son of John Stafford Northcote, third son of the first Earl. His eldest son, the fourth Earl, served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Devon . As of 2017 the titles are held by the latter's only son, the fifth Earl, who succeeded in 2004. The Northcote Baronetcy , of Haynes in
168-579: The River Taw , all producing an annual rent of £1,580. The auction took place at the Rougemont Hotel in Exeter on 28 September 1956. The purchasers were a family by the name of Croxton, who also bought 126 acres for sheep farming. The Croxtons restored the gardens, and in the house they discovered a variety of false walls, concealed doors, and secret cupboards, some of which contained historical objects including
196-451: The 16th century, for reason unknown, this family adopted the surname "Stowford" (later "Stafford") in place of "Kelloway", but retained the arms of Kelloway. The earliest dated member of the Kelloway family of Stafford is Thomas Kelloway (son of William Kelloway), who according to the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640) at "about the end of King Henry the third's reign" (1216–1272) gave
224-454: The 1990s, when they sold it and moved to a new house nearby. Eliza Stafford, the last member of the Stafford family to occupy Stafford, died in 1887. Following financial difficulties the estate was sold by the Stafford family in 1889, and has belonged to a variety of individuals since then. It was sold in 1912 to Charles Frederick Coryndon Luxmoore (1872–1933), FSA, FRGS, formerly a Captain in
252-453: The 3rd Cheshire Regiment, and particularly noted as an explorer of the Amazon. Luxmoore's family was long established in Devon and is earliest recorded in the 16th century as seated at Morestone in the parish of Bratton Clovelly , Devon. The family is said to have originated "at a stretch of moorland" called Lukesmore in the parish of Lydford near Dartmoor. His great-grandfather's second cousin
280-634: The Conqueror . It is not stated whether he held it in demesne of sub-infeudated it to his own tenant. The other manors and landholdings he held in Devonshire were: one virgate of land in Great Torrington ; Brimblecombe; Cheldon; Muxbere; Sutton; Dolton. His holdings later became the property of the feudal barony of Gloucester , the Devonshire caput of which was Winkleigh . Ansgar is called elsewhere in Domesday Book "Ansgar of Senarpont", which manor
308-659: The County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1885 for the Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet , of Pynes in the parish of Upton Pyne near Exeter in Devon and lord of the manor of Iddesleigh , 28 miles north-west of Pynes. He served as President of the Board of Trade , Secretary of State for India , Chancellor of
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#1733093435201336-539: The County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of England in 1641 for John Northcote. He represented Ashburton , Devon and Barnstaple in the House of Commons . His grandson, the third Baronet (who succeeded his father), died childless in 1709 and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. He was a Medical Doctor . His son, the fifth Baronet, sat as Member of Parliament for Exeter . His great-great-grandson
364-674: The Exchequer , First Lord of the Treasury and Foreign Secretary and was Joint Leader of the Conservative Party from 1881 to 1885. Northcote was made Viscount St Cyres , of Newton Saint Cyres in the County of Devon , at the same time he was given the earldom. This title is also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He notably served as Chairman of
392-633: The Notes of a Collector (1924). He was the historian of the Luxmoore family, author of The Family of Luxmoore (1909). Charles Luxmoore carried out substantial alterations to Stafford Barton, most notably the addition of a crenellated West Wing in which he installed a very large decorative plaster ceiling of circa 1600, removed from an Elizabethan house in Barnstaple, and other architectural items taken from nearby recently demolished historic houses. He also indulged
420-730: The United States, where he had lived for many years in New York City. He continued to build harpsichords at Stafford, though hardly on his former quasi-industrial scale. In 1971 Zuckermann reported in a letter to the New York weekly newspaper Village Voice that he had been able to buy Stafford for "no more than the average suburban one-family house in New Jersey". He also wrote that "the house [has] much old paneling and leaded lights (even my goats have leaded lights in their stable.)", and he said that
448-641: The family until 1956. On 23 August 1956 the "freehold sporting and agricultural property known as the Stafford Barton Estate" was offered for sale by direction of "the executors of the late Mrs R.M.A. Luxmoore". It included the "part 13th-century manor house of great charm" with six principal and six secondary bedrooms, four bathrooms, spacious panelled reception rooms, staff wing, excellent outbuildings" etc., with about 1,460 acres of land, seven "well-maintained" and "well-let" farms, several cottages and smallholdings with six miles of salmon and trout fishing on
476-399: The first Earl. The title of the earldom is pronounced "Id-sly" while the family surname is pronounced "Northcut". The family seat is Shillands House, near Exeter , Devon . The present holder of the peerages is John Stafford Northcote, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh (born 15 February 1957). The only son of the 4th Earl and his wife Maria Luisa Alvarez-Builla y Urquijo, Condesa del Real Agrado, he
504-640: The gardens were tended by a pensioner who "came with the property". The date Zuckermann left Stafford Barton is unknown, but advertisements and directory entries for his harpsichord business list him there up to 1973. In 2007 Stafford Barton became the property of the Doran family, and the house and gardens have been extensively restored. This work was completed before 2015. 50°53′07″N 4°00′50″W / 50.8853°N 4.0140°W / 50.8853; -4.0140 Earl of Iddesleigh Earl of Iddesleigh ( / ˈ ɪ d z l iː / IDZ -lee ), in
532-499: The grand Pynes House , surviving today, as his main residence. He left a daughter as his sole heiress who married into the Northcote family , bringing them several estates including Dowland and Iddesleigh. In 1852 the statesman Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet (whose first name is a reference to his Stafford ancestors and thus to the manor of Stafford) was ennobled by Queen Victoria as Earl of Iddesleigh . They remained at Pynes until
560-411: The manor of Stafford to his younger son Philip Kelloway, together with the estate of "Edrescot". It is unclear where the senior line of the family resided thenceforth. In the 16th century a junior line became established in the neighbouring parish of Dowland and Hugh Stafford (1674–1734) of Dowland, a noted authority on cider and apple trees, purchased the manor of Upton Pyne near Exeter, where he built
588-510: The manor probably since the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. Surviving walls can be dated to the 16th century. Many additions and renovations have taken place in the intervening years, and in the early 20th century Charles Luxmoore made many alterations and extensions and imported several major architectural features from ancient local mansions undergoing demolition so that "it has become somewhat difficult to discern its original form". In
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644-737: Was John Luxmoore (1766–1830), Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of St Asaph. His ancestor John Luxmoore (1692–1750) of Witherdon and of Northmore House (now the Town Hall), Okehampton, was an Attorney-at-Law, the owner of Okehampton Castle and was the Assay-Master of Tin for the Duchy of Cornwall . Charles Frederick Coryndon Luxmoore was the son of Capt. Charles Luxmoore-Brooke (1824–1890), 37th Regiment of Foot, of Ashbrook Hall in Cheshire and of Witherdon, Broadwoodwidger and Germansweek in Devon, who
672-705: Was Chairman of the Eggesford Foxhounds, founded by the Earls of Portsmouth. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 1928 was engaged in an expedition to the River Amazon , during which he drew a map of that river and its tributaries. He was an art collector and antiquary , a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and was the author of Smallglaze (English Smallglaze Earthenware) With
700-692: Was aide de camp to the Governor of Ceylon in 1855 and served in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Luxmoore-Brooke had inherited the Cheshire estates of his maternal uncle Henry Brooke and in accordance with the terms of the bequest adopted by royal licence the additional surname of Brooke (which his son discontinued). In 1906 Charles Luxmoore purchased the manor of Witheridge in Devon, from Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth (1856–1917), and in 1923 purchased Eggesford House , Devon, from his younger brother John Fellowes Wallop, 7th Earl of Portsmouth (1859–1925). Luxmoore
728-488: Was educated at Downside School and the Royal Agricultural College and was styled as Viscount St Cyres between 1970 and 2004. On 14 May 1983, he married firstly Fiona Caroline Elizabeth Wakefield, a daughter of Paul A. C. Wakefield. They were divorced in 1999, and on 9 June 2000 he married secondly Maria Ann Akaylar Lakin, daughter of John Lakin. With his first wife he has two children: In 2003, Lord St Cyres
756-400: Was held for many generations by a gentry family of unknown origins named Kelloway (or Kellaway, etc.). The canting arms of this family display an ancient variety of pear from France called variously Caillou, Cailloel, Cailhou , etc., Anglicised as "Kelway pear". This is combined, for reasons unknown, with grozing irons, tools used by glaziers for cutting and shaping stained-glass panes. In
784-480: Was the aforementioned eighth Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1885. Two other members of the Northcote family have also gained distinction. Henry Northcote , second son of the first Earl, was created Baron Northcote in 1899 and served as Governor-General of Australia from 1904 to 1908. Sir Geoffry Northcote , Governor of Hong Kong from 1937 to 1941, was the son of Arthur Francis Northcote, fourth son of
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