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    Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house situated within the parish and former manor of Powderham, within the former hundred of Exminster, Devon, about...
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    but a much later very distant Courtenay cousin, of the family seated at Powderham, whose common ancestor was Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (d.1377)...
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    John Deydras (died 1318), also known as John of Powderham, was a pretender to the English throne during the reign of Edward II. He was executed by hanging...
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    Clement's Church, Powderham, against the east wall of the south transept, with a plaster cast in the chapel attached to Powderham Castle, in an ogee...
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    out her life on dry land, taken in by the Earl of Devon at his home, Powderham Castle. From 1935, she lived in the castle's rose garden and was owned...
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    Sir Philip Courtenay (18 January 1404 – 16 December 1463) of Powderham, Devon, was the senior member of a junior branch of the powerful Courtenay family...
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  • HMS Powderham was one of 93 ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers named after villages ending in -ham, in this case Powderham in Devon. She was...
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  • (5 May 1942 – 18 August 2015), styled as Lord Courtenay until 1998, of Powderham Castle in Devon, was a British peer, landowner, and surveyor. He was the...
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    deepened and widened, and later still it was extended to Turf Lock near Powderham five mi (eight km). The canal was successful until the middle of the 19th...
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    until 1831, his official title was The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Courtenay of Powderham. Courtenay was baptized on 30 August 1768, the fourth of 14 children (his...
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    Sir William Courtenay (1477 – November 1535) "The Great", of Powderham in Devon, was a leading member of the Devon gentry and a courtier of King Henry...
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    Sir Philip Courtenay (c. 1355 – 29 July 1406), of Powderham, Devon was the fifth son of Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (1303–1377). He was the founder...
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  • permanently relocated their family to London, and to the family seat at Powderham Castle in May 2015. The couple announced their separation, and intention...
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  • them were Dyrham Park for the exterior of the house and the driveway, Powderham Castle (staircase, hall, music room, bedroom; used for the aqua-turquoise...
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    Buckland launched an online plant nursery, Toby Buckland Nurseries, based at Powderham Castle in Devon. Born in Exeter, Devon, Buckland was brought up in the...
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    interest in rural pursuits. In 1318, a mentally ill man named John of Powderham appeared in Oxford, claiming that he was the real Edward II, and that...
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    Master of foxhounds leads the South Devon Hunt field from Powderham Castle in Devon, England, with the hounds in front....
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  • of Knowsley Hall, Demetra Lindsay of Hedingham Castle, Lady Devon of Powderham Castle, Catherine Maxwell Stuart of Traquair House, The Hon. Martha Lytton-Cobbold...
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    Courtenay. He and his family now reside at the family's ancestral home of Powderham Castle in Devon, England. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th...
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    Baron Harington. Margaret Bonville, who married Sir William Courtenay, of Powderham. Philippa Bonville,who married Sir William Grenville, of Stowe, whose...
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    Cornwall) was a cadet line of the prominent Courtenay family seated at Powderham in Devon, itself a cadet line of the Courtenay Earls of Devon of Tiverton...
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    London), 955 hectares Hampton Court Park Bushy Park, all also red deer Powderham Castle, Devon Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire Petworth House, West Sussex...
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    Stadium Doncaster 15,231 1882 Durham County Cricket Club Durham 15,000 1390 Powderham Castle Exeter 14,860 1990 Westpoint Arena 7,500 August 27, 1955 Gateshead...
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    Britain's Royal Navy. Then in 1892, at age 53, she retired to the grounds of Powderham Castle in Devon. Up to the time of her death in 2004, she was believed...
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    food and history. The locations were Highclere Castle, Scone Palace, Powderham Castle and Goodwood House. In 2018, Berry was a judge on Britain's Best...
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    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...
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    friend and patron General Stringer Lawrence (1697–1775). Powderham Belvedere (1773) at Powderham Castle, near Exeter, Devon, built by the Earl of Devon...
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    Peregrine Courtenay. A monument to Bishop Reginald Courtenay exists in Powderham Castle, seat of the Earl of Devon, in the Victorian Dining Hall, built...
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    1548/9, 2nd son of Sir William III Courtenay (1477–1535) "The Great", of Powderham. Pole also mentions, without context, a certain "Sir Robert Shilston of...
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    western. The latter is on a causeway, the South Devon Railway sea wall from Powderham to Dawlish Warren. The Exmouth to Starcross Ferry carries passengers across...
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