Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet
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Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet (1628–1688) was a baronet from Devon, England. He resided at Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres, Devon, which mansion house has since been demolished, and also at King's Nympton, Devon, which manor he purchased from Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet, his father's first cousin, and where he was buried.
He was the son and heir of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1600–1676), MP, of Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres, Devon, by his wife Grace Halswell (d. 1675), a daughter and heiress of Hugh Halswell (d. 1626) of Chamberlain Street, Wells, Somerset, grandson of Robert Halswell (d. 1570) of Halswell House, Halswell, Somerset. The family of Northcote originated in Devon at the Domesday Book manor of Northcote in the parish of East Down in North Devon. The Heraldic Visitations of Devon lists the founder of the family as Galfridus de Northcote, Miles ("knight"), living in 1103. The family later in the 16th century made its fortune as cloth merchants at Crediton
Sir Arthur married twice:
Sir Arthur died in 1688 and was buried at King's Nympton, the manor he had recently purchased from Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet, his father's first cousin.
His large black slate ledger stone survives in King's Nympton Church, on the floor at the east end of the south aisle, within the Pollard Chapel. It is inscribed as follows: "Here lieth the body of Sr. Arthur Northcote of Hayn in the county of Devon, Bar.tt. His first wife was Elizabeth the daughter of James Welsh Esq.r. of Alverdiscot in the sd. county by whom he had 2 sons and one daughter deceased; his second wife was Elizabeth ye daughter of Sr. Francis Godolphin in the county of Cornwal, Kt. of ye Bath, by whom he had issue 4 sons & 4 daughters, 6 of them living, two lie also here interr'd with Dame Elizabeth their mother. He died 15 April 1688, she 30 August 1707 in full assurence of a joyfull resurrection to eternal life." Below is an heraldic escutcheon with the arms of Northcote in centre, (quartered 1st & 4th by a fess between three crosses moline, of unknown family) impaling dexter: Welsh (six mullets 3:2:1), sinister: Godolphin (an eagle displayed double headed between three fleurs-de-lis) overall in an inescutcheon the Red Hand of Ulster. Underneath: "Piae parentum memoriae hoc marmor posuerunt liberi immo tibi qui hoc legis quisquis es vigila dum vigilas et in rem tuam mature propera horam scit nemo" ("His children placed this marble to the pious memory of their parents, yea, to thee who read this whomsoever ye be, keep watch whilst ye are awake, and hasten quickly in thy business, no man knoweth the hour")
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