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Données personnelles William COURTENAY 

• Il est né le 11 février 1709 dans Powderham Castle, Powderham, Devon.
• Titre: 1st Viscount Courtenay, de jure 7th Earl of Devon
• Il est décédé le 16 mai 1762 dans Westminster, Middlesex, il avait 53 ans.
• Il est enterré le 31 mai 1762 dans Powderham Parish Church, Powderham, Devon.
• Un enfant de William COURTENAY et Anne BERTIE

Famille de William COURTENAY

Il est marié avec Frances FINCH.

Ils se sont mariés le 2 avril 1741 à The Chapel, Duke Street, Westminster, Middlesex, il avait 32 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Frances COURTENAY  ± 1746-1828
2. William COURTENAY  1742-1788 
3. Mary COURTENAY  1745-1783
4. Charlotte COURTENAY  ± 1744-1826

Notes par William COURTENAY

William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (11 February 1709 - 16 May 1762), also de jure 7th Earl of Devon, was a British peer. He was the son of William Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon and 2nd Baronet Courtenay, and Lady Anne Bertie.

Sir William Courtenay was educated at Westminster School and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1731 with a Master of Arts. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Courtenay and de jure to the title of 7th Earl of Devon on 10 October 1735. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Magdalen College in 1739.

He held the office of Member of Parliament for Honiton as a Tory between 1734 and 1741 and for Devon from 1741 to 6 May 1762, when he was created 1st Viscount Courtenay of Powderham Castle.

Marriage & progeny
He married on 2 April 1741 Lady Frances Finch (d.1761), daughter of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford by his wife Mary Fisher (1690-1740) , daughter and heiress of Sir Clement Fisher, 3rd Baronet (d.1729) of Packington Hall, Warwickshire. They had the following children:

William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (30 October 1742 - 14 October 1788)
the Hon. Charlotte Courtenay (d. 1826), married Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn
the Hon. Frances Courtenay (d. 1828), married Sir John Wrottesley, 8th Baronet

He was buried on 31 May 1762 at Powderham, Devon, England.

His seats in Devon were Powderham Castle, which he greatly remodelled, and Forde House, Wolborough, near Newton Abott. His town house in Exeter was the site of the present Devon and Exeter Institution at 7 Cathedral Close, on the north side of the Cathedral Green. It was at one time, like Forde, home of the Parliamentary general, Sir William Waller, whose daughter Margaret Waller was the wife of Courtenay's great-grandfather Sir William Courtenay, 1st Baronet (d.1702). Parts of Waller's building survive at the rear and the gatehouse range fronting the Close. The old hall and kitchen were demolished in 1813 to make way for the Institution and in their place and on the former courtyard are now situated the libraries. In a rear room exists a carved wooden overmantel circa 1750 within which are contained two painted panels, one of which shows the arms of the 1st Viscount impaling the arms of Finch, the family of his wife.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Courtenay,_1st_Viscount_Courtenay

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