Joseph Hunkin (1610-1661) [2] of Gatherleigh [3] in the parish of Lifton in Devon, was Governor of Scilly between 1651 and 1660, during Parliamentary control in the Civil War. [4]
Joseph Hunkin (1610-1661) [2] of Gatherleigh [3] in the parish of Lifton in Devon, was Governor of Scilly between 1651 and 1660, during Parliamentary control in the Civil War. [4]
He was the son and heir of John Hunkin (d.1629) of Gatherleigh, High Steward of the Borough of Liskeard in Cornwall (son of John Hunkin (d.1608) first Mayor of Liskeard elected on the re-incorporation of that Borough on 6 July 1587) by his first wife Grace Clobery, a daughter of Andrew Clobery (d.1596/7) [5] of Lifton [6] in Devon, [7] 2nd son of John Clobery of Bradstone, [8] Devon, near the Cornish border.
He was Governor during the construction of Cromwell's Castle, an artillery fort overlooking New Grimsby harbour on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. According to the Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum 1642–1660[ full citation needed ] he was a commissioner for Devonshire for December 1649, December 1652 and June 1657.
In 1630 at Boyton, he married Frances Loveys (d.1657), [9] a daughter of Robert Loveys of Beardon in Cornwall. Her mural monument, a simple slate tablet, survives on the external wall of Old Town Church, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, inscribed as follows: [10]
He was buried on 15 August 1661 at Lifton in Devon. [11] A later prominent member of the Hunkin family was Joseph Hunkin (1887-1950), born in Truro, Cornwall, the 8th Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950. His monument in Truro Cathedral displays the arms of Hunkin of Gatherleigh, namely: Argent, a mascle sable over all a fess of the last. [12]
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