John Inglett Fortescue

John Inglett Fortescue MP for Callington (1801-1803), claimed with his son John Dicker Inglett Fortescue for the Hope estate on St. Vincent but lost out to mortgagees. He was the son of Richard Inglett, collector of customs, Dawlish, Devon and Elizabeth, daughter of Lucy Weston of Dawlish, and heir to a Devon estate (through his paternal grandmother); he was connected with the Earls Fortescue and with the Trefusis family. His brother-in-law through his first marriage was Michael Dicker Sanders (q.v.), and his first wife Ann Sanders (1755-1815) was a pupil of the Exeter artist Francis Towne.

1. In 1810, after the destruction by fire of the previous house on the estate, Fortescue built Buckland house on the Buckland-Filleigh and Spridlestone estate.

R. G. Thorne (ed.), The House of Commons, 1790-1820 (5 vols., London, Secker & Warburg for the History of Parliament Trust, 1986), vol. 4.

1. Simon D. Smith, 'Slavery's Heritage Footprint: links between British country houses and St Vincent plantations, 1814-1834', in Madge Dresser & Andrew Hann (eds.) Slavery and the British Country House (2013) pp. 57-68, at p. 61.