Oxton, Kenton

[18] Edward Mortlock Studd married firstly Mary Spurrier in 1820 & secondly Emma Beatrice Bayly, daughter of Lt. Charlton Booth Bayly, Royal Navy, of Sidmouth, Devon on 15 February 1855 at Holy Trinity, Paddington, London, by whom he had a son and heir Edward Fairfax Studd (1855–1942), of Oxton, a barrister, JP and Captain in the Royal Field Artillery, who married Evelyn Chichester (born 1854), 3rd daughter of Sir Arthur Chichester, 8th Baronet, Colonel of the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, of Youlston Park, Sherwell, North Devon.

[20] The Lt. General's 2nd son was Alnod Ernest Studd (1857–1906), a distinguished chess player, who after a brief military career in the 15th Hussars (1875–1879) became bankrupt in 1901 through speculation on the Stock Exchange in 1882 and from a failed investment in 1891 in a coffee estate at Bundara, Mysore, India.

[22] He was a fish merchant and ship owner of Irish origin who in 1885 together with Henry West founded a fishmongery business in Custom House Street, Cardiff.

On 6 February 1899 a steamship he half-owned named "Ramsey", registered at Cardiff, was stranded and lost on the Wolves Rocks in the Bristol Channel.

[24][25] In 1920 "Joshua John Neale of Oxton, Kenton, near Exeter" was listed as a County Magistrate for Dinas Powis Petty Sessional Division, in Glamorgan, Wales.

Oxton House, east front
"Oxton House, Devonshire, the seat of John Beaumont Swete, Esquire". 1830 engraving by Thomas Shepherd. As rebuilt in 1781 by his father Rev. John Swete (d.1821). View from south-east. The bridge over the stream (bottom right) is the site of the present decorative white cast iron bridge.
"White Bridge", early 19th century cast iron bridge across stream, entrance drive to Oxton House
Oxton House, panorama from east
Old Oxton House, painted in 1781 by Rev. John Swete (d.1821), who demolished it in the same year and replaced it with the present Georgian style building
Arms of Swete: Gules, two chevronels between in chief as many mullets or and in base a rose argent seeded of the second
"Sub-Lieutenant Studd, 15th Hussars", Carte-de-Visite, Studio Owen Angel, Exeter. Alnod Ernest Studd (1857–1906) was the 2nd son of Lt. General Edward Mortlock Studd (1799–1877), of Oxton House