John Stawell [SEP] date of death
John Stawell
Sir John Stawell or Stowell (29 August 1600 – 21 February 1662) of Cothelstone in Somerset, was an English Member of Parliament and Royalist governor of Taunton during the English Civil War.
The oldest surviving son of Sir John Stawell of Cothelstone and Elizabeth Touchet, daughter of the Earl of Castlehaven, Stawell was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. In 1625, he entered Parliament as member for Somerset, and was knighted (KB) at the coronation of Charles I early the following year.
Elize Hele survives in Bovey Tracey Church, facing that of Eveleigh.
Descent Stawell.
Descent Stawell Sir John Stawell (1625-1669).
Sir John Stawell (1625-1669) of Parke, a counsellor-at-law, in 1653 purchased Torre Abbey in Devon from Weston Ridgeway, 3rd Earl of Londonderry (1620–1672) of Tor Mohun, adjoining Torre Abbey, and was the owner in 1661 as the bird's eye engraving of that date by Wenceslaus Hollar confirms in a dedicatory canton, showing a strapwork escutcheon of