Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet, of Buckland Abbey in the parish of Buckland Monachorum and of Meavy, both in Devon, England, was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament for Tavistock in Devon, i
Buckland Abbey tower
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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
Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet
…February 1690, he married Elizabeth Pollexfen (d.1717) (buried on 25 March 1717, at Meavy), a daughter and eventual co-heiress of Sir Henry Pollexfen, of Nutwell Court in Devon, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, by whom he had seven sons and one daughter, including: Sir Francis Drake, 4th Baronet (1694-1740…
Nutwell Court in the parish of Woodbury, Devon. The "exquisitely precise and austere neo-classical mansion" rebuilt in 1799. West front (River Exe front)
Nutwell Court, built circa 1800 by Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (1750–1813), on the site of an earlier house
The newly rebuilt Nutwell Court as painted by Rev. John Swete (d.1821) during his travels of May 1799. Viewed from River Exe estuary
"Old Nutwell, seat of late Sir Francis Drake". Undated watercolour by Rev. John Swete (died 1821) made before 1799 when the present neo-classical house was built in its place