Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet


Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet was an English baronet from Devon. He was by profession a doctor of medicine. His great-great-great-grandson was Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.

Origins

He was the 3rd son of Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet of Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres, Devon, and later also of King's Nympton, Devon, by his second wife Elizabeth Godolphin, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin, KB, of Godolphin, near Helston in Cornwall.

Inheritance

In 1709 aged 54 he became the heir to his childless elder brother Sir Francis Northcote, 3rd Baronet, their father's second but eldest surviving son, who had married Anne Wrey, daughter of Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Baronet lord of the manor of Tawstock, Devon, who had married Lady Anne Bourchier, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, and heiress of Tawstock, seat of the Bourchiers.

Marriage and children

Henry married Penelope Lovett, heiress of Corffe in the parish of Tawstock, daughter and heiress of Edward Lovett by his wife Joane Hearle, daughter & heiress of James Hearle of Corffe, Tawstock. Penelope's aunt was Anne Lovett, the second wife of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of Tawstock Court, which marriage was childless. Anne married secondly to Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden. By his wife Sir Henry had the following children:
He resided at Corffe, Tawstock, and died there in February 1729/30 and was buried at Tawstock, in the parish church of which exists his mural monument.

Monument at Tawstock

Sir Henry Northcote's mural monument made by Thomas Jewell of Barnstaple exists in St Peter's Church, Tawstock, with the following Latin inscription:

M S Henrici Northcote Baronti Filii Arthuri Northcote de Hayne in Agro Damnon Barti. E schola Ætonensi ad Coll: Exon: apud Oxonienses emissus socius admodum juvenis cooptatus est: inde Medicinae Doctor prodiit Omnimoda Disciplina ita institutus ut Rem ubivis parare; et Moribus ita fomatus ut ornare posset amplissimam omnibus vero titulis hic in eo praenituit. Aegris opifer solamen egenis aliorum saluti consulebat arte pietate suae. Uxorem duxit Penelopen, Edvardi Lovet Arm filiam faeminam fide moribus & charitate dignam quae viro tam egregio jungeretur. Fatis cessere Ille die Feb: 5to A.Dm.1729 Æt 63 Haec die Oct: 8to A.Dm. 1732 Æt 56. Utriq parenti filius eorum unicus Henricus Northcote Bartus hoc marmor gratus consecrat. of his age 63; she, on the 8th day of October in the year of Our Lord 1732,