page_title: Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue
section_title: Co-founds West Buckland School
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue / Co-founds West Buckland School
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue. By Frederick Christian Lewis Sr, after Joseph Slater stipple engraving, 1826 or after 12 in. x 9 in. (304 mm x 228 mm) plate size; 22 1/8 in. x 15 1/8 in. (562 mm x 384 mm) paper size Given by Grillion's Club, 1903 Reference Collection NPG D20597
context_page_description: Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue KG, PC, styled Viscount Ebrington from 1789 to 1841, was a British Whig politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1839 to 1841.
context_section_description: In 1858 together with Rev. J.L. Brereton, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral and Rector of West Buckland, he founded the Devon County School, situated on land between West Buckland and East Buckland donated by him from his North Devon estate centred at Filleigh. The school was intended to provide a top quality education to local boys, including therefore the sons of many of his tenant farmers; it continues today as West Buckland School, an independent private school. A marble bust of Earl Fortescue, sculpted in 1861 by Edward Bowring Stephens (1815–82), stands on the staircase of the school's Memorial Hall.
caption: Portrait of Hugh Fortescue when Viscount Ebrington, painted between 1826–1841 by Frederick Christian Lewis Sr, after Joseph Slater. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D20597
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