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Nicholas Hilliard (c.– 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England. He mostly painted small ...
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Dr Thomas Blackall M.A., M.D., FRCP (18 May 1814 – 11 May 1899) was an English physician, son of another renowned physician John Blackall. Born in Devon, he attended Cambridge, before working as a physician ...
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Sir George Smith (died 21 March 1619) of Madworthy-juxta-Exeter and Madford House, Exeter, Devon, was a merchant who served as MP for Exeter in 1604, was three times Mayor of Exeter and was Exeter's richest ...
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Roland Glave Saunders MRVCS, MBE (12 March 1873 — 10 December 1952 (aged 79)) was a veterinary surgeon from Exeter, Devon, who was later elected as Sheriff of Exeter and then six-times Mayor of Exeter ...
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Sir Walter de Sweynthill (died c. 1340) was an English knight and politician in the reigns of Edward II and Edward III who represented the City of Exeter and Devonshire in Parliament and served as Sheriff ...
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John Peryam (1541 – c. 1618), of Exeter, Devon, was elected four times as a Member of Parliament, for Barnstaple 1584, Bossiney 1586, Exeter 1589 and 1593. He served as Mayor of Exeter. He was the younger ...
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Edward Bridgeman was Sheriff of Devon and Sheriff of Exeter in 1563, and High Sheriff of Devonshire in 1578. He is the ancestor of the Bridgeman Baronets, the Earls of Bradford and the Viscounts Bridgeman ...