Charles Christopher Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon was a British soldier, landowner, and peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1937 until his death.
Devon in 1936
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Earl of Devon is a noble title that has been created several times in the Peerage of England. It was possessed first by the Redvers family, and later by the Courtenay family. It is not to be confused
Charles Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon
…Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. On 19 June 1935 he succeeded as Earl of Devon and as a baronet. On 29 July 1939 he married Sybil Venetia Taylor, daughter of Captain John Vickris Taylor, recently divorced from Mark Pepys, 6th Earl…
Tiverton Castle, Devon, the few remains of the early mediaeval castle and seat of the Redvers and Courtenay Earls of Devon. Forfeited and recovered many times, it was finally sold by the daughters and co-heiresses of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (d.1556), of the 1553 creation. It never was besieged during the Courtenay tenure, but was afterwards captured during the Civil War by a stroke of luck. It was then largely demolished as a preventative measure.
Powderham Castle, Devon, the ancient seat of the family of Courtenay of Powderham, which successfully claimed the dormant Earldom of Devon in the 19th century. Here seen from the southwest, flying the heraldic banner of the Earl of Devon.
Earl's coronet worn by the 17th Earl of Devon at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 (displayed at Powderham Castle)