[1] He was born on 23 September 1882, the eldest son and heir of Coplestone Richard George Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baron Poltimore (1859–1918) by his wife Hon.

Gerald William Lascelles[6] by his wife Constance Augusta Mary Fitz Clarence Phillipson, a younger son of the Earl of Harewood.

She is remembered by North Molton residents as having hired buses to take the local children to Woollacombe Beach in the summer and to pantomimes in Exeter at Christmas.

After World War II, Bampfylde sold most of the 5,000 acre North Molton estate, owned by his family for about 400 years, and its many farmsteads to his tenant farmers.

His move to Africa has been attributed to several factors: the accidental death in 1936 of his only son and heir apparent, poor health, arthritis (possibly caused by a lifetime spent hunting)[11] and the victory of the Labour Government under Clement Attlee in 1945.

Sheila Margaret Warwick Bampfylde, the wife of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet (1907–1983) of Affeton Castle and Hartland Abbey in Devon.

Stucley, a keen sportsman, made Court House at North Molton his preferred residence due to the Bampfyldes' renowned pheasant shoot[11] which he further developed.