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Farway Farway is a small village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England. The village is situated about south-east of Honiton. The village lies on the River Coly, which rises in the north of the civil parish and ...
in Devon is an historic estate situated about 3 1/2 miles south-east of
Honiton Honiton () is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, Devon, River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 12,154 (based on 2021 census). History The ...
. The present mansion house known as Netherton Hall was built in 1607 in the Jacobean style, restored and rebuilt 1836-44, and is a
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building.


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Canonsleigh Abbey

The estate of Netherton was a possession of
Canonsleigh Abbey Canonsleigh Abbey was an Augustinian priory in the parish of Burlescombe, Devon. History It was founded in about 1170 by Walter de Claville, lord of the manor of Burlescombe, for the Augustinian canons regular as the Priory of the Blessed Vir ...
, Devon.Risdon, p.35


Drake

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was sold by the crown to Sir
Bernard Drake Sir Bernard Drake (c. 1537 – 10 April 1586) of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon, was an English sea captain. He himself refuted any familial relationship with his contemporary the great Admiral Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 β€ ...
(c. 1537 – 1586) of
Ash, Musbury Ash in the parish of Musbury in the county of Devon is an historic estate, long the residence of the ancient Drake family, the heir of which remarkably was always called John, only one excepted, for ten generations. It was formerly believed to ...
, in Devon, who granted the
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to Mr Loman.


Prideaux

The Prideaux family is believed to be of Norman origin and to have first settled in England at some time after the
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of 1066 at
Prideaux Castle Prideaux Castle is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m (435 ft) high conical hill near the southern boundary of the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is also sometimes referred to as ''Pridea ...
, near
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, in Cornwall. It abandoned that seat and moved to Devon, where it spread out in various branches, most notably at Orcharton,
Modbury Modbury is a large village, ecclesiastical parish, civil parish and former manor in the South Hams district of the county of Devon in England. Today due to its large size it is generally referred to as a "town" although the parish council has ...
; Adeston,
Holbeton Holbeton is a civil parish and village located 9 miles south east of Plymouth in the South Hams district of Devon, England. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 579, down from 850 in 1901. By 2011 it had increased to 619. The south ...
; Thuborough,
Sutcombe Sutcombe is a village and civil parish in the Non-metropolitan district, local government district of Torridge District, Torridge, Devon, England. The parish, which lies about 5.5 miles north of the town of Holsworthy, Devon, Holsworthy, is surr ...
; Solden,
Holsworthy Holsworthy is a market town and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, west of Exeter. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, forms the western boundary of the parish, which includes the village of Brandis Corner. ...
; Netherton, Farway; Ashburton;
Nutwell Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury on the south coast of Devon is a historic manor and the site of a Georgian neo-classical Grade II* listed mansion house known as Nutwell Court. The house is situated on the east bank of the estuary of the Ri ...
, Woodbury and
Ford Abbey Forde Abbey is a privately owned former Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England, with a postal address in Chard, Somerset. The house and gardens are run as a tourist attraction while the estate is farmed to provide additional revenue. Forde Abbe ...
,
Thorncombe Thorncombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It was historically, until 1844, an exclave of Devon. It lies five miles (8 km) south east of the town of Chard in neighbouring Somerset. Thorncombe is situated cl ...
. Another branch built
Prideaux Place Prideaux Place is a Listed building, grade I listed Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by ...
in Cornwall in 1592, where it survives today. It was one of the most widespread and successful of all the gentry families of Devon, and as remarked upon by Swete (died 1821), exceptionally most of the expansion was performed by younger sons, who by the custom of
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were expected to make their own fortunes.


Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet (died 1628)

Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet (died 1628), who purchased Netherton. He was a Councellor at Law and double reader of the
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and was created a
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on 17 July 1622.Vivian, p.621 He was the second son of Roger Prideaux (died 1582) of Soldon in the parish of
Holsworthy Holsworthy is a market town and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, west of Exeter. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, forms the western boundary of the parish, which includes the village of Brandis Corner. ...
, Devon, by his wife Phillippa Yorke (died 1597), daughter of Richard (or Roger) Yorke, Serjeant-at-Law, and widow of Richard Parker. Sir Edmund Prideaux with his newly married third wife Mary Reynell (died 1631) built a new mansion on the site in 1607, which date is inscribed atop the full-height porch,Listed building text much of which survives in the present building. He was buried in St Michael's Church, Farway, where survives his monument showing his semi-recumbent effigy dressed in lawyer's robes, with effigy of his son below. He married three times: *Firstly to Bridget Chichester, the seventh daughter of Sir John Chichester (1519–1569) of
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in the parish of Pilton, North Devon. By his first wife he had one son Timothy Prideaux (born 1590, baptised at Holsworthy), who predeceased his father, and three daughters. *Secondly to Catherine Edgcumbe, daughter of Piers Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, by whom he had children: **Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–1682), of Netherton, eldest son and heir. **
Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet of Ford Abbey Edmund Prideaux (died 1659) of Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Devon, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was briefly solicitor-general but chose to resign rather than parti ...
(died 1659) of
Forde Abbey Forde Abbey is a privately owned former Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England, with a postal address in Chard, Somerset. The house and gardens are run as a tourist attraction while the estate is farmed to provide additional revenue. Forde Abbe ...
, second son, made a baronet by the
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on 31 May 1658. **Mary Prideaux (1598–1612), died aged 14, buried at St Dunstan in the West,
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. *Thirdly in 1606 to Mary Reynell (died 1631), daughter of Richard Reynell (died 1585) of East Ogwell, Devon,
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in 1585, and sister of Sir Richard Reynell (died 1633), Member of Parliament for Mitchell in Cornwall (1593), builder in 1610 of Ford House, Wolborough, and widow of Arthur Fowell (born 1552) of Fowellscombe, Ugborough, and mother of
Sir Edmund Fowell, 1st Baronet Sir Edmund Fowell, 1st Baronet (1593 – October 1674) of Fowelscombe in the parish of Ugborough in Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Ashburton in Devon from 1640 to 1648. Origins He was the 3rd son and eventual heir of Arthur Fowell (bo ...
(1593–1674). One year after his marriage to Mary Reynell he built Netherton Hall.


Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–1682)

Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–1682), eldest son and heir by his father's second wife Catherine Edgcumbe. He was MP for
Honiton Honiton () is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, Devon, River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 12,154 (based on 2021 census). History The ...
in 1661 and
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in 1662. He married Susan Paulet (died 1673), daughter of Sir
Anthony Paulet Sir Anthony Paulet (1562–1600) of Hinton St George, Somerset, was Governor of Jersey from 1588 until his death in 1600. Origins He was born at Hinton St George, Somerset the eldest son of Amyas Paulet, Sir Amias Paulet (1532–1588) by his wife ...
(1562–1600) of
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,
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,
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, and sister of
John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (1585 – 20 March 1649), of Hinton St George, Somerset, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1610 and 1621 and was later raised to the Peerag ...
(born c. 1585).


Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet (1626–1705)

Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet (1626–1705), of Netherton in the parish of Farway, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician. Origins He was the 4th but eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–168 ...
(1626–1705), 4th but eldest surviving son and heir. He was a Member of Parliament for
Honiton Honiton () is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, Devon, River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 12,154 (based on 2021 census). History The ...
, Devon, in 1661, for
Liskeard Liskeard ( ; ) is an ancient stannary and market town in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, west of the Devon border, and 12 miles (20 km) east of Bodmin. Th ...
,Vivian, p.622 Cornwall, in 1661, and for
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22 June 1685. He married Elizabeth Grenville (died 1692), eldest daughter of Sir
Bevil Grenville Sir Bevil Grenville (23 March 1596 – 5 July 1643) was an English landowner and soldier who sat as a Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1620 and 1642, although during those years there were few parliamentary sessions. ...
(1596–1643)
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s of
Bideford Bideford ( ) is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, South West England. It is the main town of the Torridge District, Torridge Districts of England, local government district. Toponymy In ancient records Bi ...
in Devon and
Stowe, Kilkhampton Stowe House in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, United Kingdom, was a mansion built in 1679 by John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701) and demolished in 1739. The Grenville family were for many centuries lords of the manor of Kil ...
in Cornwall and sister of
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC (29 August 1628 – 22 August 1701) was an English landowner who served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War and was rewarded for his services after the 1660 Stuart Restoration with a title ...
. He died on 22 November 1705 and was buried two days later in St Michael's Church, Farway, where survives his mural monument.


Sir Edmund Prideaux, 4th Baronet (1647–1720)

Sir Edmund Prideaux, 4th Baronet (1647–1720)


Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet (1675–1729)

Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet (1675–1729). His only son died in infancy and the baronetcy thus passed to his first cousin. His only daughter and heiress was Anne Prideaux (1718-1760) who married John Pendarvis Basset (1713–1739) of
Tehidy Tehidy Country Park is a country park in Illogan in Cornwall, England which incorporates of the parkland and estate around Tehidy House, a former manor house of the Tehidy manor. The park's facilities include an events field, barbecue hire ...
in the parish of
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in Cornwall. Her husband died in 1739 and then her only son John Prideaux Basset (1740 (posthumous)-1756) died in 1756 aged 16, when the Basset estates passed to his uncle, Francis Basset (died 1769). From that time therefore she may have lost her residence at Tehidy and required alternative housing, when she purchased the palatial
Haldon House Haldon House (pronounced: "Hol-don") on the eastern side of the Haldon Hills in the parishes of Dunchideock and Kenn, Devon, Kenn, near Exeter in Devon, England, was a large Georgian country house largely demolished in the 1920s. The surviving n ...
in the parish of
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in Devon, from
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(1721-1784) (who had inherited it from his wife) and was resident there in 1758. She died in 1760, and appointed as trustees of her will her cousin Thomas Hawkins of Trewithen, and Rev. Thomas Carlyon of St. Just-in-Roseland. Her legatees included her cousin Charles Evelyn of Totnes, who assigned his inheritance in settlement of a debt to Samuel Squire, Bishop of St. Davids. Her husband was a member of the junior branch of the prominent Basset family of
Umberleigh Umberleigh is a former large manor within the historic hundred of (North) Tawton, but today a small village in North Devon in England. It used to be an ecclesiastical parish, but following the building of the church at Atherington it became ...
and
Heanton Punchardon Heanton Punchardon ( ) is a village, civil parish and former manor, anciently part of Braunton Hundred. It is situated directly east-southeast of the village of Braunton, in North Devon. The parish lies on the north bank of the estuary of the ...
in North Devon. ShePolwhele, p.181 (or her trustees) sold Haldon to John Jones, Esq., who sold Haldon to William Webber, Esq., who sold it to
Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (December 1717 – 29 April 1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, Devon, Kenn, in Devon, England, was an officer of the British East India Company who served as Governor of the Madras Presidency. In England ...
.


Sir John Prideaux, 6th Baronet (1695–1766)

Sir John Prideaux, 6th Baronet (1695–1766)


Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, 7th Baronet (1748–1826)

Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, 7th Baronet (1748–1826). The house was in poor repair when visited in 1795 by the Devon topographer Rev.
John Swete Rev. John Swete (born John Tripe) (baptised 13 August 1752 – 25 October 1821) of Oxton, Kenton, Oxton House, Kenton, Devon, Kenton in Devon, was a clergyman, landowner, artist, antiquary, historian and topographer and author of the ''Picturesqu ...
(died 1821), who made a watercolour sketch of it (studiously omitting a "modern mean wing which presents its gable-end" which he considered ugly) and recorded in his journal: :''"This fair house of Netherton which Sir Edmund Prideaux built, though no longer fair, is the place of residence of his lineal successor Sir Wilmot - and with him it bids fair to fall to the ground for the mansion and the family will probably perish together. They both totter and to neither is there a prop of support" ... "Surrounded by paltry offices and deserted gardens, its mullioned windows block'd up to save a trifling tax, and deprived of the groves that once overhung it, naked and forlorn, little is the consequence which it possesses, and for ever has it ceased to arrest the admiration of the traveller"''.


Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, 8th Baronet (1791–1833)

Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, 8th Baronet (1791–1833)


Sir Edmund Saunderson Prideaux, 9th Baronet (1793–1875)

Sir Edmund Saunderson Prideaux, 9th Baronet (1793–1875), brother. Between 1836 and 1844 he restored and rebuilt the house, using the services of the builder W. Lee. He died without surviving male children when the baronetcy became extinct.


Tuke

Netherton Hall was the home of Samuel Tuke (1854–1937), a member of the
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of
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,
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innovators involved in establishing
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Cocoa Works, The Retreat Mental Hospital and three Quaker schools, Ackworth,
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, and The Mount. He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and died at Colwell, Honiton.


Granville-Barker

In 1919 the estate was purchased by the English playwright
Harley Granville-Barker Harley Granville-Barker (25 November 1877 – 31 August 1946) was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. After early success as an actor in the plays of George Bernard Shaw, he increasingly turned to directing a ...
(1877–1946), and received visits from many prominent literary figures including
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,
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and
Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry ...
.Jackson-Stops & Staff listing particulars, 2012


Later owners

In 1955 the house was being used as a school. During the mid to late 1970s it was used as a school for "supposedly" maladjusted boys. Some did have behaver issues while others had been removed from mainstream education for being more advanced than the average child. From there, boys were mostly sent to Dawlish College once the age of 13 was reached. In 1968 it was the residence of Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton of Farway (1902–1996), a diplomat and Member of Parliament for Taunton 1950-56.Jackson-Stops & Staff listing particulars, 2012; Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.279 It was later restored and divided for multiple occupation. The main part of the house, including 4 bedrooms, 5 reception rooms, 4.35 acres of land with tennis court and swimming pool was sold in 2012 for an asking price of Β£1.5 million.


References

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Sources

* Risdon, Tristram (died 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 35 * Vivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (ed.) ''The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620'', Exeter, 1895, pp. 621–3, pedigree of Prideaux of Soldon and Netherton


External links

*Jackson-Stops & Staff listing particulars, 201
Netherton Hall, Listed building text
Historic estates in Devon