Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet

Arms of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (d.1654) of Creedy, as seen on the mural monument to his wife in Sandford Church:[1] Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gules
Arms of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (1588–1654) of Creedy: Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gules impaling: Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable (Strode of Newnham). Detail from mural monument to his wife Juliana Strode (d.1627), Sandford Church, Devon

Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (1588–1654) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton, Devon, was a member of the Devonshire gentry and served as Member of Parliament for Tiverton in 1621-2 and as Sheriff of Devon (1629-1630). He was created a baronet in 1641.

Origins

Davie was the son and heir of John Davie of Sandford and Crediton, Devon by his wife Margaret Southcote, daughter of George Southcote, of Calverley, Devon.[2]

Career

He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 22 February 1605, aged 16.[3] In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for the newly enfranchised constituency of Tiverton in Devon.[4] He served as Sheriff of Devon from 1629 to 1630. He was created a baronet on 9 September 1641.[2]

Marriages and progeny

Davie married twice:

Relief sculpted panel depicting the progeny of Sir William Strode (died 1637) of Newnham, detail from the latter's mural monument in St Mary's Church, Plympton. Lady Davie is the 5th daughter shown in the back row

Monument to wife

Mural monument to Juliana Strode (d.1627), Sandford Church. Above are shown the arms of Davie impaling Strode

A mural monument to his first wife Juliana Strode (d.1627) survives in Sandford Church, inscribed in verse as follows:

Here buried lyes the body of Julian,
Sur William Strode's daughter of Newingham,
Of John Davie Esquire the late deare wife,
Who did Maye's fourteenth day depart this life,
In the sixteene hundred twenty & seventh yeare,
Of the Lord Christ her saviour most deare.
She worthy was by byrth, she was by grace,
Berean-like[12] of a more noble race,
In that she ready was to here, to try,
God's preached word and in synceritie,
The same to keepe which made her during life,
A good, kinde, carefull mistres, mother, wife.
Syncerity she livinge did embrace,
And dyinge did exhort all to that grace.
To husband, children, servants, neighbours, frends,
Her death brought losse unspeakable yet tends,
To her great gayne who now for earthly pleasure,
Most heavenly joyes partaketh without measure".

Death and burial

Davie died in 1654 at the age of about 66 and was buried at Sandford on 13 October 1654.[3]

Sources

References

  1. Also as blazoned in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Davie, p.269
  2. 1 2 3 "Complete baronetage". Archive.org. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Dabbe-Dirkin". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  4. Notitia Parliamentaria, Or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs ... Books.google.com. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  5. Both were great-grand-children of John Southcott (d.1556) of Indio (See Vivian, p.719, pedigree of Strode)
  6. Vivian, p.699, pedigree of Southcott
  7. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.719, pedigree of Strode
  8. Vivian, p.270, printed with last letter missing
  9. Sir Francis Clarke (1622/3-c.1690), knighted 1665, "His second wife (whom he married in 1667) was a thirty year old spinster, Elizabeth Proby, of Mortlake, Surrey. Clarke's City of London house was on the south side of Fenchurch Street in the parish of St Gabriel. It was a relatively modest ten hearth residence. He also had a house in Putney, Surrey. Sir Francis Clarke was from Devon and Dorset born parents. His father was Christopher Clarke, a justice of the peace in Exeter, and his mother, Francis Pitt, was from Weymouth, Dorset. He died intestate in 1690, at the age of about sixty-eight, and was buried at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate."
  10. Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.282
  11. Vivian, p.840, pedigree of Yonge
  12. Berean: according to the Book of Acts, Chapter 17 verses 11-12, Paul of Tarsus and Silas preached at Berea, of which the inhabitants "Were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed". (King James Bible)
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Newly enfranchised
Member of Parliament for Tiverton
1621=1622
With: John Bampfield
Succeeded by
Sir George Chudleigh
Humphrey Weare
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
(of Creedy)
16411654
Succeeded by
Sir John Davie
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