Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)
Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for the Parliaments of 1295 and 1407, and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.
Seale-Hayne
Martin
Eve
Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet
Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1676. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War.
Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676), detail of his kneeling effigy at base of monument he erected to his father John Northcote (1570–1632) in Newton St Cyres Church, Devon
Effigies of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676) and his wife Grace Halswell (died 1675). Detail from base of monument to his father John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church. On a cartouche above are shown the arms of Northcote impaling Azure, three bars wavy argent overall a bend gules (Halswell). Their sons are shown kneeling behind their father and their daughters behind their mother. the effigies of some infants of both genders lie on the floor in swaddling clothes
Grace Halswell (died 1675), wife of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676). Detail from her kneeling effigy at base of monument to her father-in-law John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church
