page_title: Manor of Buckland Filleigh
section_title: Inglett-Fortescue
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Buckland Filleigh / Inglett-Fortescue
caption_attribution_description: English: 1797 watercolour of Buckland Filleigh House, Devon (south front), by Rev. John Swete (d.1821). Collection of Devon Record Office, ref: DRO, 564M/F11/81. The house burned down in 1798 and was rebuilt circa 1810 in the neo-classical style, which building survives today.
context_page_description: The manor of Buckland Filleigh was a manor in the parish of Buckland Filleigh in North Devon, England. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the manor and its estates passed through several families, including over 300 years owned by the Fortescues.
context_section_description: On inheriting his uncle's estates, including Buckland Filleigh, Richard Inglett "Fortescue" (1731–1790) assumed the surname Fortescue by royal licence in 1766. He was a collector of customs. He was the eldest son of Caleb Inglett (died 1752) of Dawlish by his wife Rebecca Fortescue (1699–1764) who was sister to John Fortescue (1700–1776). He married Elizabeth Weston, daughter of Lucy Weston.
  Richard's only son was Lt. Col. John Inglett Fortescue (1758–1841) of the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, JP and DL for Devon. In 1792 he was appointed a trustee of the large Devon and Cornwall estates of the five-year-old Robert Trefusis, 18th Baron Clinton (1787–1832), of nearby Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe, and in that connection served as MP for that family's pocket borough of Callington, Cornwall (1801–03). He was Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Devon from 1819 to 1841, a lucrative post. He rebuilt the mansion house in 1810 in the neo-classical style following a fire in 1798. By his first wife, Anne Saunders (died 1815), daughter of a merchant of Exeter, Thomas Saunders, he had children including his eldest son and heir, Rev. John Dicker Inglett-Fortescue (1785–1860) who sold the manor and died unmarried.
caption: 1797 watercolour of Buckland Filleigh House by Rev. John Swete. The house burned down the next year.
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