page_title: Mount Radford, Exeter
section_title: Duck
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Radford, Exeter / Descent / Duck
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Duck family of Heavitree and Mount Radford, Exeter, Devon: Or, on a fess wavy sable three lozenges of the field (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.309) alternative blazon: Or, on a fess undee sable three fusils or (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.480)
context_page_description: Mount Radford is an historic estate in the parish of St Leonards, adjacent to the east side of the City of Exeter in Devon.
context_section_description: Nicholas Duck (1570–1628) of the parish of Heavitree, adjacent to St Leonards, Exeter, purchased Mount Radford in 1614. He was a lawyer who served as Recorder of Exeter and twice as a member of parliament for Exeter, in 1624 and 1625. He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (1643–1723). His father was Richard Duck (d.1603) of Heavitree who founded "Duck's Almshouses" at Heavitree, still surviving at the intersection of Fore Street and Butts Road, having been rebuilt in 1853.
  Richard Duck (1603–1656), eldest son and heir. During the Civil War Mount Radford House and the parish church of St Leonard's were fortified by the Royalists in defence of the City of Exeter. He married Bridget Drewe, daughter of Sir Thomas Drewe (d. 1651) of The Grange, Broadhembury, Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1612, who sold Killerton to Sir Arthur Acland. (Son of Edward Drew (c. 1542–1598) of Killerton, Broadclyst and The Grange, Broadhembury, Devon, a Serjeant-at-Law to Queen Elizabeth I who served as a member of parliament for Lyme Regis in 1584, twice for Exeter in 1586 and 1588 and in 1592 for the City of London and was Recorder of the City of London).
  Nicholas II Duck (1630–1667), eldest son and heir, who married his cousin Martha Duck (d. 1674), eldest daughter and co-heiress of his great-uncle the "vastly rich" Sir Arthur Duck (1580–1649), a Doctor of Civil Law, a Royalist in the Civil War, MP for Minehead in Somerset and an author of several works. she survived her husband and remarried to Sir Thomas Carew, 1st Baronet (1632–1673) of Haccombe, Devon. One of his daughters, Margaret Duck, married Edward II Mansel of Henllys, near Llanddewi, on the Gower Peninsula in Glamorgan, Wales. The senior line was seated at Margam Abbey (see Mansel Baronets and Baron Mansel) which family had played a major role in the early settlement of Gower. Edward II Mansel was the son and heir of Edward I Mansel (d. 1695). The Mansel family suffered financial problems and in 1699 Mrs. Mansel (Margaret Duck), widow of Edward II, petitioned Parliament for a special settlement of her affairs. In a letter to Mr. Thomas Drew, "probably a lawyer", (probably her cousin Thomas Drewe (1635–1707) of The Grange), she stated that Mr. Mansels father "left a great incumbrance on the estate".
  Richard II Duck (1657–1695), eldest son and heir, who in Exeter Cathedral married Elizabeth Acland (d. 1723), eldest daughter and co-heiress of John II Acland (1615–1674), Mayor of Exeter. John II Acland's father was John I Acland (d. 1641), also Mayor of Exeter, and a grandson of Anthony Acland (d. 1568) of Hawkridge, Chittlehampton, Devon, a junior branch of the ancient family of Acland of Acland, Landkey in North Devon, the senior branch of which became the Acland Baronets of Killerton, major landowners in the Westcountry. Elizabeth's sister and co-heiress Margery Acland was the wife of Richard's brother Arthur Duck (d. 1702), LLD. The marriage was without progeny.
caption: Arms of Duck: Or, on a fess wavy sable three lozenges of the field[11]
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