George Amyand

He was the second son of Claudius Amyand, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George II,[2] by his wife Mary Rabache, and was baptised at the fashionable St James's Church, Piccadilly.

[2] Amyand was an assistant to the Russia Company in March 1756, an army contractor during the Seven Years' War,[3] who collaborated with Nicholas Magens and Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland.

[8] In 1748 he married Anna Maria Korten (d. 1767), daughter and heiress of John Abraham Korten (1690-1742) a German merchant from Elberfeld who in 1718 had become a naturalised English subject, having become established at premises in Mincing Lance in the City of London, where he was engaged in exporting textiles and linen from Russia and Europe to the Caribbean, and importing from there Sugar, also importing tobacco and fur from North America.

[12][13] He donated the present organ in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, one of the largest in Devon, made by John Crang in 1764.

[14] It is decorated with his armorials: Vert, a chevron between three garbs or[2] with an inescutcheon of pretence[15] Or, on a chief azure a crescent argent (Korten?