He served as MP for Okehampton in 1677, as High Sheriff of Devon for 1680–81, and again as MP for Okehampton in 1689 and 1690–1694.
Marriage and children
He married Susanna Sparke, daughter of John Sparke, dyer, of Exeter.[6] She was the granddaughter of Stephen Toller, haberdasher of Exeter, who in 1673 purchased "Crediton Parks", the former park of the Bishops of Exeter, from Sir John Chichester of Hall, Bishop's Tawton. Susanna devised Crediton Parks to her daughter Susanna Northleigh, who devised it to her nephew John Tuckfield (c. 1719–1767) of Little Fulford, MP for Exeter, the eldest son of her sister Elizabeth Northleigh by her husband Roger Tuckfield of London, Merchant.[7] By his wife he had children including:
Stephen Northleigh (c. 1692–?1731) of Peamore (son), MP for Totnes (1713–1722), which seat he obtained on the interest of his cousins the Yarde family.[8] He married Margaret Davie, daughter of Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707), of Creedy House in the parish of Sandford, Devon.[9] He died without male children, leaving his daughter Mary Northleigh (d. 1773)[10] as heiress, who in 1739 married John Hippisley Coxe (1715–1769) of Ston Easton, Somerset[11] John Hippisley Coxe built the Palladian mansion Ston Easton Park in Somerset.
Death
He died in 1694, as is recorded on his ledger stone in Alphington church, near Peamore.
References
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 584
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 584, pedigree of Northleigh
^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol. 1, p. 55
^Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1119, pedigree of Hippisley of Ston Easton
