of Potheridge in the parish of Merton, Devon, was Member of Parliament for Camelford, Cornwall, in 1626.
He matriculated at King's College, Cambridge at Easter 1587 and was admitted as a student of law to the Inner Temple in 1590.
[7] On her marriage Elizabeth received as a dowry from her father lands including the manor of Dolton,[8] in respect of which she and her husband received a royal licence to alienate granted in 1619 by King James I.
The charter, with the Great Seal of King James I appended, survives and is displayed in Dolton Church.
Elizabeth's half-sister by their father's second marriage was Grace Smith, wife of the heroic Civil War Royalist commander Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) of Bideford in Devon and Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall, killed in action at the Battle of Lansdowne (1643) and mother of John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701).