Robert Lydston Newcombe (1719-1808) of Starcross in the parish of Kenton in Devon, was High Sheriff of Devon in 1779 and 1799. [2]
Robert Lydston Newcombe (1719-1808) of Starcross in the parish of Kenton in Devon, was High Sheriff of Devon in 1779 and 1799. [2]
He was the son of John Newcombe (1685-1773), an apothecary of St. Kerrian's, Exeter (later residing at Hill's Court in the parish of St. David's, Exeter), by his wife Mary Lydston (1692-1733), a daughter of Robert Lydston, an apothecary of St. Kerrian's, Exeter. John's great-great-grandfather was William Newcombe (d.1614), of All Hallows', Exeter and Mayor of Exeter in 1612, whose unidentified grave is in Exeter Cathedral. [3] The Newcombe family are earliest recorded as residing at Yeo, Chagford in the 14th century [4] where they were involved in the Dartmoor tin industry and later at Drewsteignton, Devon. [5] The arms of Newcombe (Argent, a fess embattled between two escallops in pale sable) are identical to those of Nutcombe of Nutcombe [6] in the parish of Clayhanger, Devon, with altered tinctures.
He married Hannah Bawden (b.1722, d.1799) on the 9 July 1754 at Littleham, daughter of Humphry Bawden, a mercer in Exeter and his wife Margaret née Newcombe (the paternal aunt of Robert L. Newcombe), by whom they had a son and five daughters, including:
He died on 8 January 1808 and was buried in the south-west corner of the churchyard of St David's Church, Exeter, where survives his large monument topped by obelisks above his grave. [11]
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