Mount Radford is an historic estate in the parish of St Leonards, adjacent to the east side of the City of Exeter in Devon.
Dorothy Bampfield (died 1617), wife of Edward Hancock (c. 1560–1603), detail from her effigy in the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral
Heraldic escutcheon showing the arms of Hancock of Combe Martin: Gules, on a chief argent three cocks of the field impaling Bampfield of Poltimore: Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent (shown here pierced). Detail from the base of the monument of Dorothy Bampfield (d.1617) in the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral
Monuments to the mother and step-father of William Hancock (1602–1625), north wall of Lady Chapel, Exeter Cathedral. Right: Dorothy Bampfield (died 1617), left: Sir John Dodderidge (1555–1628). Above Dorothy's effigy on a tablet within a strapwork surround is the following Latin inscription: "Hic jacet d(omi)na Dorothea uxor Johannis Dioderidge militis unius justiciarioru(m) d(omi)ni regis as placita coram rege tenenda assignati et filia Amisii Bampfield militis quae obiit primo Martii Anno Dom(ini) 1614" ("Here lies Dorothy the wife of John Doderidge, knight, one of the Justices of the Lord King assigned at the Pleas held before the King, and daughter of Amisus
Monument to Judith Newman (1608–1634)firstly wife of William I Hancock (d.1625), secondly of Thomas II Ivatt, Combe Martin Church. Above are displayed within an escutcheon the following arms: Argent, on a cross gules five fleurs-de-lis or (Ivatt) impaling Azure, a chevron wavy between three griffons segreant or (Newman)
Sir John Doddridge was an English lawyer, appointed Justice of the King's Bench in 1612 and served as Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1589 and for Horsham in 1604. He was also an antiquarian and writer. He acquired the nickname "the sleeping judge" from his habit of shutting his eyes while listening intently to a case. As a lawyer he was influenced by humanist ideas, and was familiar with the ideas of Aristotle, and the debates of the period between his followers and the Ramists. He was a believer in both the rationality of the English common law and in its connection with custom.
He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (d.1723).
Sir John Doddridge (1555–1628), Justice of the King's Bench, wearing his judicial robes. National Portrait Gallery.
The 16th-century "Doddridge House" (right) in Cross Street, Barnstaple. 19th-century engraving by Jonathan Lomas, looking down Cross Street toward the West Gate.
Great Fosters, near Egham, Surrey, Doddridge's seat near London at which he died in 1628, as stated on his epitaph in Exeter Cathedral
Effigy of Dorothy Bampfield, Dodderidge's second wife, Exeter Cathedral