page_title: John Acland (died 1620)
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: John Acland (died 1620) / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: Exeter College Dining Hall, September, 2005. J Freeman
context_page_description: Sir John Acland of Columb John in the parish of Broadclyst, Devon, was an English knight, landowner, philanthropist, Member of Parliament and Sheriff of Devon. He was one of John Prince's Worthies of Devon.
context_section_description: His charitable gifts were numerous. He settled on the mayor and city council of Exeter the rectorial endowments of two parishes in the South Hams, so that the annual proceeds might be distributed among the poor in Exeter and in other parts of the county. He largely financed a new hall, with cellars underneath, at Exeter College, Oxford, shortly before his death, at a cost of about £800 of the total £1,000 building cost. Two scholarships were also founded by him at the college. He gave money to buy bread for the poor in each of the 27 parishes in which he held land and an inscription to Sir John was erected in Pilton Church, near Acland, which is transcribed in Dean Milles' Questionnaire thus:
  Here Sr John Acland to the poor's a friend,
  
  In giving bread noe times to have an end,
  
  Sixpence a week by him to us is measured,
  
  A crown for him in Heaven's laid up and treasured
caption: Dining Hall, Exeter College, Oxford, built in 1618,[21] largely financed by Acland
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