Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Baronet (26 June 1757 – 30 November 1799) of Shute in the parish of Colyton, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of West Looe.
The house remained the principal seat of the family until the death in 1926 of the unmarried and childless Sir Frederick Arundel de la Pole, 11th Baronet (1850–1926), great-grandson of the builder.
He bequeathed the entire Shute Estate to his distant young cousin Sir John Carew-Pole of Antony House in Cornwall, descended from Carolus Pole, the younger brother of the 4th Baronet.
old Shute House was retained by Sir John Carew-Pole until 1955 when he gave it to the National Trust on the proviso that members of his wider family would remain tenants, which they did until 2008.
He broke his indenture and set off for India where he made a fortune, either from government building contracts or possibly from dealing in silver bullion,[18] before returning to England aged 23.
He settled at Rotherhithe, Kent, where he obtained a government contract to re-build the dockyard with his partners John Line and Thomas Parlby.
[19] His son James Templer (1748–1813) built the Stover Canal in 1792 to help ship clay along the Teign Estuary from the Bovey Basin to the port of Teignmouth.
It consists of an inscribed tablet flanked on either side by a fasces supporting an entablature on top of which, above his coat of arms, is a classical oil-lamp with flame:
Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799), in uniform of
Deputy Lieutenant
of Devon,
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in the library of New Shute House, Devon, built by him between 1787 and 1789, holding a plan of his new house in his right hand, from close study of which Maureen Turner (1999) was the first to discover the name of the architect Thomas Parlby, Esquire (1727–1802), his wife's uncle, the business partner and brother-in-law of James Templer, Senior, Sir John's father-in-law.
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The Doric portico is visible through the window. Portrait by
Thomas Beach
(1738–1806), collection of Sir Richard Carew-Pole, Antony House, Cornwall
Arms of Pole of Shute:
Azure semée of fleur-de-lys or, a lion rampant argent
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New Shute House
,
Shute
, near
Colyton
, Devon, built 1787–89 by Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Bt (1757–1799). He demolished much of the Tudor part of Old Shute House and laid a one-mile driveway through the former building which leads onwards to New Shute House
1808 commemorative stained glass window in Shute Church, Devon, south window of south transept, showing arms of Sir William Templer-Pole, 7th Baronet (1782–1847), son of 6th Baronet, impaling the arms of Templer, the family of his first cousin and first wife Sophia-Anne Templer (1788–1808), following whose death the window was made. Arms:
Baron: quarterly 1st and 4th, Pole; 2nd & 3rd: Ermine, a
millrind
sable (Mills), over all an inescutcheon the Red Hand of Ulster;
impaling
femme: quarterly azure and gules, on a mount in base vert the perspective of an antique temple argent of three stories, each embattled; from the second battlement two steeples, and from the top, one, each ending in a cross sable on the pinnacle; in the first quarter an eagle displayed; in the second a stag trippant regardant or (Templer, granted 1765)
. The canting motto of Pole is shown below:
Pollet Virtus
, from the Latin verb
Polleo
, to be strong, mighty,
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thus: "Virtue is powerful",
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but which may also be read as
Poll et Virtus
, "Pole and Virtue"
1832 mural monument to Lady Anne Pole (née Templer) (1758–1832), wife of Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) signed: "P. Rouw sculp. London" (
Peter Rouw
(1771–1852)), west wall of south transept of St Michael's Church, Shute, Devon
1793 Portrait by Thomas Beach with Old Shute House as background of the three children of Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799): (l to r): William (1782–1847), future 7th Bt., Mary-Anne (b.1783) and John George (1786–1803). Collection at Antony House, Cornwall
Mural monument to Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799), St Michael's Church, Shute, west wall of south transept
