Humphrey Sydenham (1694–1757)

Horace Walpole called him "a mad High Church zealot"[3] though on another occasion he wrote that Sydenham was "an honest devout gentleman, who always talked out of the Common Prayer Book".

[5] His financial situation was restored by a large inheritance from his great-great-uncle Sir John St Barbe, 1st Baronet (died 1723), MP, of Broadlands in Hampshire.

As his heir and executor, Sydenham erected a marble monument in Barbe's memory in the chancel of Ashington Church, Somerset.

He married Grace Hill, daughter and heiress of Richard Hill of the Priory, near Exeter, by whom he had one son and three daughters[7] including: His mural monument in Dulverton church is inscribed as follows: Underneath are displayed on an escutcheon quarterly of four: 1st: Argent, three rams passant guardant sable (Sydenham); 2nd: Argent, a bend of fusils sable (Kittisford); 3rd: Chequy argent and sable (St Barbe); 4th: Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets or (?).

Overall is an inescutcheon of pretence: Ermine, on a fesse sable a castle argent (Hill).