Whiteway House

[1] It should be distinguished from Whiteway in the parish of Kingsteignton, Devon, 4 3/4 miles (7.6 km) to the south, a manor listed in the Domesday Book as the 157th[2] Devonshire possession of Baldwin de Moels (died 1090), Sheriff of Devon, feudal baron of Okehampton, and in 1795 a grand mansion illustrated by Swete, formerly a seat of the Yard family[3] of Bradley, Kingsteignton, and today a farmhouse known as Whiteway Barton.

Nicholas married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pomeroy, of Brindley in the parish of Harberton, knight, and had issue John, William sine prole, English, (married to Thomas Thorn of Mamhead;) Julian, (to Roger Harewell of Kingsteignton;) Joan, (to Peter Bear of the same;) Sabine.

Conveyance of the estate of inheritance in fee simple of the tenements called Whiteway, Wolcombe and Oxencombe" He had also purchased Saltram before in 1712 and at another time Polsloe Priory.

Whiteway became the residence of Lord Boringdon's younger brother Montagu Edmund Parker (1737–1831), of Blagdon in the parish of Paignton, who was Sheriff of Devon in 1789 and whose two portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Downman survive at Saltram House.

During this exile from Saltram the Earls lived partly abroad, in rented London houses and at Whiteway with the Dowager Countess Hariett.

[12] The 3rd Earl married well to a wealthy heiress, Margaret Holford, daughter and eventual heiress of the very wealthy Robert Stayner Holford of Westonbirt House in Gloucestershire, and finances recovered temporarily until the agricultural slump of the start of the 20th century forced the 4th Earl to let Whiteway in 1911,[13] the proceeds from which he used to make improvements at Saltram.