Baron Poltimore

His son, the second Baron, held office as Treasurer of the Household from 1872 to 1874 in the first Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone.

As of 2010[update] the titles are held by the latter's great-great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his grandfather in 1978.

He has notably been a director of Sotheby's[1] and appears on the Antiques Roadshow as Mark Poltimore, one of the experts on paintings.

[2] In 2013 he appeared in the film Trance playing the role of Francis Lemaitre, an auctioneer.

Their Exeter townhouse was Bampfylde House, built c. 1590,[4] destroyed by bombing in 1942 during WW II.

Arms of Bampfylde, Barons Poltimore: Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent
Seats of the Bampfylde family (Bampfylde Baronets and Barons Poltimore): In Devonshire: Poltimore ; North Molton ; Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot ; Copleston , Colebrooke ; Bampfylde House, Exeter . In Somerset: Weston Bampfylde ; Hardington