Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet

Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet (11 March 1676 – 6 October 1735) of Powderham Castle, Powderham, Devon, was an English landowner, a leading member of the Devonshire gentry and Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons from 1701 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons almost continually from 1707 to 1735.

He directed his body to be buried in the north aisle of Powderham Church "near the monument there erected".

Peregrine, Anna Sophia and Isabella (wife of John Andrew of Exeter) were mentioned in a deed dated 2 May 1765 and registered in Dublin.

[7] He left £10 each to his nieces Elizabeth, Mary, Lucy and Isabella Courtenay for mourning clothes.

He bequeathed to Sir William Courtenay his nephew the sum of £100 and also made him his residuary beneficiary.