Arthur Champneys

[2] Sign at entrance to today's "Cogworthy Farm", anciently the mansion house of "Cockworthy", seat of the de Cockworthy family, lords of the manor of Yarnscombe[3] and later of the Champneys family]] He was a younger son of John Champneys (1605-1681) of Cockworthy (today "Cogworthy" Farm) in the parish of Yarnscombe, Devon, educated at Oxford University, whose mural monument formerly existed in Yarnscombe Church,[4] by his second wife Anne Upton, 3rd daughter of John Upton (1590-1641) of Lupton in the parish of Brixham, Devon, an MP for Dartmouth in Devon.

[8] In 1703 Champneys sold Raleigh to Sir Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731), his fellow MP for Barnstaple in 1701.

[9] He married Hannah Ingram (1673-1693), a daughter of Sir Arthur Ingram (1617-1681), of the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, City of London, and of Bucknall,[10] Lincolnshire, knight, a merchant, a Citizen of the City of London and a member of the Spanish Company, which was very active in Barnstaple.

[12] Another of her sisters Philadelphia Ingram married a son of Sir Robert Barnham, 1st Baronet (MP Maidstone, 1660, 1661–79).

[10] The large mural monument to his father-in-law in the chancel of that church made reference to him as follows:[15]