page_title: Manor of Gittisham
section_title: Putt
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Gittisham / Descent / Putt
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument in the south aisle of St Michael's parish church, Gittisham, Devon, to Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet (1644–86), of Combe. He was Member of Parliament for Honiton, Devon, March 1679, October 1679, 1681, 16 April – 15 June 1685 and 3 October 1685 – 25 June 1686. He was Mayor of Honiton in 1685. He married Ursula Cholmondeley, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Braganza, consort of King Charles II.
context_page_description: Gittisham is an historic manor largely co-terminous with the parish of Gittisham in Devon, England, within which is situated the village of Gittisham. The capital estate is Combe, on which is situated Combe House, the manor house of Gittisham, a grade I listed Elizabethan building situated 2 1/4 miles south-west of the historic centre of Honiton and 3 1/4 miles north-east of the historic centre of Ottery St Mary.
context_section_description: The descent of Combe in the Putt family was as follows:
  Nicholas Putt, Sheriff of Devon in 1644, who purchased Combe in 1614. His father and grandfather had lived at Berry Pomeroy. During the Civil War he was a Royalist and in 1644 he was arrested at Combe by Parliamentarian forces, at which time the house was ransacked and set on fire. On the way to imprisonment and trial in London, he died at Axminster in Devon.
  William Putt (died 1663), son and heir, married Jane Every, daughter of William Every of Cothays, Somerset.
  Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet (1644–1686), eldest son and heir,  created a baronet in 1666. He served as  Member of Parliament for Honiton, Devon, March 1679, October 1679, 1681, 16 April - 15 June 1685 and 3 October 1685 - 25 June 1686. He was Mayor of Honiton in 1685. He married Ursula Cholmondeley (died 1674), daughter of Col. Richard Cholmondeley (1620–1644), of Grosmont, county York, Knight,  a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of King Charles II (1660–1685). Richard Cholmondeley was a Royalist commander during the Civil War, and had served as Governor of Axminster and was a son-in-law to John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, (1585–1649) of Hinton St George, Somerset. He was killed at Lyme Regis in Dorset in October 1644 and was buried at Brixton, Devon. He was the son of Sir Richard Cholmondeley (1580–1631), of Whitby, Yorkshire, MP for Scarborough 1620-1, member of a junior branch of the Cholmondley family of Cholmondley in Cheshire, later Earl of Leinster and Marquess of Cholmondley. Sir Thomas Putt's monument survives in Gittisham Church, described by Pevsner (2004) as: "A spectacular affairwith a big tomb-chest in an arched recess of black marble. On the chest two oversized garlanded white marble urns. The back wall of the recess with blank architecture of pediment on brackets. The whole cold, competent, expensive and metropolitan". The maker was possibly William Stanton or William Kidwell, with urns possibly by Edward Pierce. On the back wall are shown the arms of Putt: Argent, a lion rampant within a mascle sable, with a canton of the Red Hand of Ulster for a baronet, impaling  Cholmondeley: Gules, in chief two esquire's helmets argent in base a garb or.
  Sir Thomas Putt, 2nd Baronet (c. 1675 – 1721). He married twice, firstly to Margaret Trevelyan, daughter of Sir George Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (c. 1635 – 1671) of Nettlecombe in Somerset, and secondly to .... Prestwood. He died without male children when the baronetcy became extinct. His funeral hatchment survives in Gittisham Church.
  William Thomas Putt (1725–1797), 18th century clergyman and squire of the Combe estate  He obtained a BCL in 1751.
  Thomas Putt (1757–1787), "Black Tom", descendant. He was educated at Queens College, Oxford, and later trained as a lawyer in the  Middle Temple, and was called to the bar. He was a keen gardener and planted Beech Walk, Bellevue and the terraced gardens at Combe. He was probably the creator of the "Tom Putt" variety of apple tree, as is suggested by his having won prizes at the Honiton Horticultural Shows for his fruit trees. He made considerable additions to Combe House, including the surviving "Georgian Kitchen" and the Orangery, intended to have been three times the size of the completed building. His epithet "Black Tom" derives from his notoriously bad temper. It is said by residents of the village of Gittisham that when the church bells rang they were repeating "Hang Tom Putt".
  William Putt, brother and heir, who completed "Black Tom"'s building works on a reduced scale.
  Raymundo Putt (1773–1812), of Combe, who in 1810 was lord of the manor of Gittisham and patron of Gittisham Church. His mural monument survives in Gittisham Church.
  Thomas Putt (1832–1844), descendant, last in the male line who  died unmarried and bequeathed his estates to his sister Margaretta Putt (died 1846), who married Rev Henry Marker, to the descendants of which marriage descended the Putt estates.
caption: Monument to Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet (1644–1686), Gittisham Church
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