Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet

Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – April 1650)[1] of Poltimore and North Molton and Tamerton Foliot, all in Devon, was an English lawyer and politician.

[4] He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 30 October 1629, aged 19 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1630.

[5] In the Civil War Bampfylde firstly allied himself with the Royalists,[6] for which he was created a baronet, of Poltimore, in the County of Devon by King Charles I on 14 July 1641.

She was a co-heiress to her brother John V Coplestone (1609–1632), and inherited amongst other properties the manor of Tamerton Foliot, which thus passed into the Bampfylde family.

His ledger stone survives, set into the floor of the nave of St Mary's Church, Poltimore, inscribed as follows: Above are shown the arms of Bampfylde impaling Copleston (Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure).