{{short description|English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John Bampfield | image = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Member of Parliament for Devon | term1 = 1628-1629 | predecessor1 = {{ubl|Sir George Chudleigh|Humphrey Weare}} | successor1 = {{ubl|John Drake|John Pole}} | office2 = Member of Parliament for Tiverton | term2 = 1621-1622 | birth_date = c. {{birth date text|1586}} | birth_place = England | death_date = c. {{death year and age|1657|1586}} | death_place = | education = Exeter College, Oxford | occupation = Politician | father = Amias Bampfield | relatives = Richard Bampfield (grandfather) | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Drake|1602}} | children = 5+, including John, Francis and Thomas }} [[File:Arms of Bampfylde of Poltimore.svg|thumb|Arms of Bampfylde: ''Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent.'']] '''John Bampfield''' (c. 1586 – c. 1657)<ref name="Venning & Hunneyball">Venning & Hunneyball</ref> of Poltimore House and North Molton, Devon, England, was a Member of Parliament for Tiverton in Devon (1621) and for the prestigious county seat of Devon (1628-9).
==Origins== Bampfield was the eldest son and heir of Sir Amias Bampfield (c. 1560 – c. 1626), MP, of Poltimore and North Molton, by his wife Elizabeth Clifton, who was a daughter of Sir John Clifton of Barrington Court, Somerset.
==Career== Bampfield matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 13 July 1604, aged 18. He was a law student at the Middle Temple in 1607. In 1621 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Tiverton, Devon. He was elected an MP for Devon in 1628 and sat until 1629, when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.<ref name=Alumni>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117044 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51-78. Date accessed: 19 November 2011]</ref> In 1631 he founded almshouses in memory of his late wife.<ref name=":0" />
==Marriage and children== In 1602 Bampfield married Elizabeth Drake, a daughter of Thomas Drake (d.1605) of Buckland Drake, Devon, and a niece of Admiral Sir Francis Drake (d.1596)<ref name=":1">Vivian, pp.40; 299</ref> of Buckland Abbey, Devon. This was part of a double union in which his sister, Jane Bampfield, married Francis Drake, who was a brother of Elizabeth Drake.<ref name=":0">Vivian, pp.39-40; Venning & Hunneyball</ref> Drake and Bampfield then attended Oxford together two years later.<ref name=":1" /> By his wife he had children, including: *Amias Bampfylde, eldest son, who died in Italy without children.<ref name="Vivian, p.40">Vivian, p.40</ref> *Arthur Bampfield, second son, died without children.<ref name="Vivian, p.40"/> *Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (1610–1650), third son and heir apparent, one of Devon's Parliamentarian leaders during the Civil War,<ref name="Venning & Hunneyball"/> who predeceased his father.<ref name="Venning & Hunneyball"/><ref name="Vivian, p.40"/><ref name = Burke>{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire | publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | location = London | volume = I | edition = 4th | year = 1832 | pages = 306 }}</ref> The heir to his baronetcy and paternal inheritance was his eldest son Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet (c. 1633 – 1692). *Francis Bampfield (died 1663/4), sixth son,<ref name="Vivian, p.40"/> a Nonconformist minister<ref name=Alumni/> who died in Newgate Prison. *Thomas Bampfield (died 1693), eighth son,<ref name="Vivian, p.40"/> MP, briefly Speaker of the House of Commons.
==Sources== *[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/bampfield-john-1586-1657 Venning, Tim & Hunneyball, Paul, biography of ''Bampfield, John (c.1586-c.1657), of Poltimore, Devon''] published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, Cambridge University Press, 2010 *Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 38–41, pedigree of ''Bamfield of Poltimore''
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