John Prideaux Lightfoot

Lightfoot married Elizabeth Ann Le Blanc on 15 July 1835 at St Luke's Church, Chelsea;[4] they had eight children.

[6] He was married a second time on 7 January 1863 to Louisa, only daughter of Sir George Best Robinson, 2nd Baronet, widow of Capt.

[5] Lightfoot succeeded Joseph Loscombe Richards as rector of Exeter, or head of the college, while Sir George Gilbert Scott's proposal for a new chapel inspired by the Sainte Chapelle in Paris was under consideration.

The building programme during Lightfoot's tenure also included the Gothic revival library of 1856 and new rector's lodgings in the Georgian style (1857).

[8][9] In 1886, Lightfoot commissioned the Adoration of the Magi tapestry from Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, both alumni of Exeter, to be hung in the chapel.