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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720–1791) was a British landowner, garden designer and artist.
Bampfylde was a notable amateur painter, and exhibited his works at the Society of Artists, the Free Society of Artists, and the Royal Academy between 1763 and 1783. He made a few etchings of landscapes, and drew some humorous illustrations for 
He died at Hestercombe on 29 August 1791 and was buried in the Warre family tomb at St Mary's Church, Kingston. He had married Mary Knight (died 1806), daughter of Edward Knight, a Worcestershire ironmaster. They had no children and Hestercombe was left to his nephew, John Tyndale.
There are paintings by Bampfylde in the collections of National Trust, The UK Government and Exeter University.Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
YourPaintings, BBC, accessed January 2013
Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720–1791) was a British landowner, garden designer and artist.
Life
Bampfylde was the only son of John Bampfylde by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Warre, 1st Baronet, and was educated atBlundell's School
Blundell's School is an Private schools in the United Kingdom, independent co-educational boarding school, boarding and Day school, day school in the English Public School (United Kingdom), public school tradition, located in Tiverton, Devon, T ...
and Winchester
Winchester (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs N ...
.
In 1750, following the death of his father, he inherited Hestercombe House
Hestercombe House is a historic country house in the parish of West Monkton in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton in Somerset, England. The house is a Grade II* listed building and the estate is Grade I listed on the English Heritage Register ...
in Somerset (originally the property of his mother's family), where he designed and laid out the gardens. They are now listed Grade 1 on the English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, a battlefield, medieval castles, Roman forts, historic industrial sites, Lis ...
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.
In November 1758, during the Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763, was a Great Power conflict fought primarily in Europe, with significant subsidiary campaigns in North America and South Asia. The protagonists were Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of Prus ...
, he was commissioned as major
Major most commonly refers to:
* Major (rank), a military rank
* Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits
* People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames
* Major and minor in musi ...
of the 1st Somerset Militia, which was embodied for fulltime service in home defence on 3 July 1759. The regiment served in the Plymouth
Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...
defences, and Bampfylde was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in December 1761 on the resignation of Lord North
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (13 April 17325 August 1792), better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led Great Britain through most of the ...
. The regiment was disembodied on 31 December 1762 as the war drew to a close. He was appointed as Colonel of the Regiment
Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below Brigadier (United Kingdom), brigadier, and above Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), lieutenant colonel. British colonels are not usually field commanders; typically ...
on 2 June 1797.
Bampfylde was a notable amateur painter, and exhibited his works at the Society of Artists, the Free Society of Artists, and the Royal Academy between 1763 and 1783. He made a few etchings of landscapes, and drew some humorous illustrations for Christopher Anstey
Christopher Anstey (31 October 1724 – 3 August 1805) was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there. His poem, ''The New Bath Gui ...
's ''Election Ball'' which were etched by William Hassel, and published at Bath in 1776. He also designed the Market House in Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ...
in 1772.
He died at Hestercombe on 29 August 1791 and was buried in the Warre family tomb at St Mary's Church, Kingston. He had married Mary Knight (died 1806), daughter of Edward Knight, a Worcestershire ironmaster. They had no children and Hestercombe was left to his nephew, John Tyndale.
There are paintings by Bampfylde in the collections of National Trust, The UK Government and Exeter University.YourPaintings, BBC, accessed January 2013
References
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