page_title: Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet
section_title: Marriages and children
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet / Marriages and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Pollexfen of Kitley in the parish of Yealmpton, Devon: Quarterly argent and azure, in the 1 and 4 quarter a lion rampant gules (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.600)
context_page_description: Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet, of Buckland Abbey in the parish of Buckland Monachorum and of Meavy, both in Devon, England, was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament for Tavistock in Devon, in 1673, 1679, 1681, 1689, 1690, 1696 and 1698.
context_section_description: Drake married three times, with children only from his third wife:
  Firstly on 6 February 1665, at Bere Ferrers in Devon, to Dorothy Bampfylde (d.1679), a daughter of Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet of Poltimore House in Devon, by his wife Gertrude Copleston, daughter of Amyas Copleston of Warleigh in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, near Bere Ferrers. She died childless and was buried at Buckland on 30 January 1679.
  Secondly, by licence dated 21 October 1680, he married Anne Boone (d.1685), daughter of John Boone of Mount Boone, Devon, a Member of Parliament for Dartmouth in Devon. She died childless and was buried on 22 December 1685 at Buckland.
  Thirdly, by licence dated 17 February 1690, he married  Elizabeth Pollexfen (d.1717) (buried on  25 March 1717, at Meavy), a daughter and eventual co-heiress of Sir Henry Pollexfen, of Nutwell Court in Devon, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, by whom he had seven sons and one daughter, including:
  Sir Francis Drake, 4th Baronet (1694-1740), of Buckland Abbey and Nutwell, eldest son and heir.
caption: Arms of Pollexfen: Quarterly argent and azure, in the 1 and 4 quarter a lion rampant gules
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