Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet

Sir Coplestone Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689 – 7 October 1727) of Poltimore and North Molton, Devon, was a British landowner and High Tory politician of Ware. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 26 January 1708, aged 18. His father died in a fall from his horse in 1691 and in 1692 he succeeded his grandfather Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet (c. 1633–1692) as 3rd baronet.

Inheritance As well as having inherited his grandfather's extensive Devonshire estates, including Poltimore and North Molton, Bampfylde also inherited the estates of his distant cousin Warwick Bampfylde (1623–1695) of Hardington, Somerset (5th in descent from Peter Bampfylde of Hardington, younger brother of Sir William I Bampfylde (died 1474) of Poltimore ), to whom he acted as executor.

Marriage and children Gertrude Carew (1682–1736), a daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (1635–1692) of Antony, wife of Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet. Portrait by Charles d' Agar, National Trust, collection of Antony House In June 1716 Bampfylde married Gertrude Carew, daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (died 1692)