. Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (c. 1650 – 1686) of

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in the parish of

Stowford Stowford is a village and civil parish in the district of West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is situated to the west of Dartmoor. Stowford is about 1 mile west of the village of Lewdown and about 11 miles south-west of Okehampton ...

in Devon (about 11 miles south-west of

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), was four-times elected as a

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for

in Devon, between 1671 and 1685.

Origins

He was the only son and heir of John Harris (c. 1586 – 1657) of Hayne in the parish of

in Devon and of

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in Cornwall, a

, by his second wife Cordelia Mohun daughter of

John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton (1595 – 28 March 1641) was an English politician. Life He was the eldest son of Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1608, and joining the Middle ...

Career

He succeeded his father on 6 March 1657. In 1671 he was elected a

for

. He was created a

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"of Stowford" on 1 December 1673. He was re-elected MP for Okehampton in the two elections of 1679 and in 1681.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 4'' 1900
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Marriage

He married (by licence dated 5 June 1673) Theophila Turner (d. 1702),Vivian, p. 449 a daughter of John Turner,

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, of St Bride's in the

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, and of

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, by his wife Jane Pepys, a remote cousin of the diarist

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. The marriage was childless. She survived her husband and died at Greenwich and was buried on 27 July 1702 at Lifton.

Death and burial

He died at the age of about 36 and was buried on 20 February 1685/6 at Lifton, near Hayne, when the baronetcy became extinct.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Arthur 1650 births 1686 deaths English MPs 1661–1679 Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the Parliament of England for Okehampton