Budleigh Notables: E
EDWARD, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor. He visited the Budleigh area in 1921.
* At Bicton House he inspected the local branch of the British Legion, formerly known as the 'Comrades of the Great War'.
* At Ralegh’s birthplace of ‘Hayes Barton’, East Budleigh, he was received by Alderman Edward Windeatt, President of the Devonshire Association.
* As a keen golfer from the age of 13, along with the visit to ‘Hayes Barton’, he played the course at East Devon Golf Club on 16 May 1921. He had been apparently persuaded by his mother, Queen Mary, to give up steeplechasing and hunting in favour of a less risky activity. The photo above shows him at play later in life.
* Perhaps his visit to Budleigh, and especially the golf, helped him enjoy that tour of Devon more than an earlier tour of Devon and Cornwall in June 1919. In a letter dated 10 June to his ‘darling’ mistress Freda Dudley Ward, he described the tour as ‘ghastly’ and complained of being ‘so lonely and bored and fed up and depressed’. In the same letter he memorably wrote that William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter, ‘looks quite mad and is anyway revolting with a scraggy beard’.
https://www.eastdevongolfclub.co.uk/the-club/history/
Robert EHLERS (1916-1941)
* He was born on 11 January 1916 at Bettmar, Lower Saxony, in Germany.
* An air gunner in the German Luftwaffe - pictured above in uniform - he was one of five members of the aircrew of a Heinkel He III bomber which crashed into the sea two miles south of Budleigh Salterton on 2 April 1941. Image credit: Simon Parry, Wing Leader Ltd
* His
body was never recovered.
* For
29 years from 1987 the football club of the town of Betheln in his German homeland
of Lower Saxony was twinned with Budleigh Salterton Football Club.
* It is possible that the German Red Cross may
be able to provide details of Robert Ehlers’ family.
* You
can read about Robert Ehlers (1916-1941) - including a graphic account of the Heinkel’s last flight, published
in 2023, by the Higher Cemetery, Exeter -
at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy_14.html
General Dwight D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969). American military officer and 34th president of the USA. There have been claims that he visited Budleigh, but these have not been substantiated by hard evidence.
* ‘Hale Lodge’, Westfield Close, was reputedly the headquarters of American forces during the planning for D-Day. Pictured above is General Eisenhower addressing American troops at that time. Image credit: www.archives.gov
* A planning application document published by East Devon District Council in 2015 included the comment that the house had been nominated for inclusion in the Budleigh Salterton Heritage Asset List published by the Otter Valley Association because of its links with Eisenhower and Montgomery.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww2-75-yanks-and-budleigh-salterton-ike.html
Cecil ELGEE (1904-84), artist, lived at 9 Copplestone Road.
* Among her work were illustrations for the book Costumes and Characters in the Days of the British Raj (1982).
* She was a talented woodcarver.
* Her name lives on in the Cecil Elgee Memorial prize, awarded by Budleigh Salterton Art Club.
* An exhibition of Cecil Elgee’s work was staged at Fairlynch Museum in 2023.
* Her grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2013/11/people-from-past-7-cecil-elgee-1904-84.html (3 Nov 2013)
https://www.fairlynchmuseum.uk/news/cecil-elgee-1904-1984
Professor Alan Eglin Heathcote EMERY FRCP, FRCPE, FLS, FRSA, FRSE (b. 1928). He and his wife Marcia have lived in Budleigh Salterton since 1994. A medical geneticist, he has written or edited 24 books and has published over 300 papers mainly concerned with clinical, biochemical and genetic research in neuromuscular diseases.
* He is particularly recognized for his research into hereditary neuromuscular diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
* He was the first to delineate the life-limiting disease Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; the disease and its defective protein product, emerin, are named after him.
* He is also a published poet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Emery
Marcia EMERY. Wife of Professor Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery FRCP, FRCPE, FLS, FRSA, FRSE (b. 1928). She and her husband Alan have lived in Budleigh Salterton since 1994. Co-author with him of Surgical and Medical Treatment in Art (2006).
Alma
Elizabeth ENDICOTT, née Lake (c.1883-unknown)
* Her husband was Ernest William Endicott (1880-1953).
* Their son was John
Lake Endicott (1922-1941), who was killed on active service
in Norfolk during WW2 while serving at Stiffkey Light Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Range, Norfolk: see above image.
Ernest William ENDICOTT (1880-1953)
* His parents were Lewis Endicott (c.1846-1915) and Sarah Jane Endicott, née Woodley (c.1854-1925), both from Moretonhampstead, Devon.
* His wife was Alma Elizabeth Endicott, née Lake (c.1883-unknown)
* Their son was John Lake Endicott kia WW2 (1922-1941), who was killed on active service in Norfolk during WW2
* He was buried with his son John
Lake Endicott kia WW2 (1922-1941), as shown on the headstone above,
in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
John
Lake ENDICOTT kia
WW2 (1922-1941)
* He was born in Newton Abbot, Devon. His parents were Ernest William Endicott (1880-1953) born in Moretonhampstead, Devon, and Alma Elizabeth ENDICOTT, née Lake (c.1883-unknown).
* He was killed on active service in Norfolk during WW2
* He was buried with his father Ernest William Endicott (1880-1953)
in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
* You can read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-10-june-1941-vaseful-of.html
Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Fortescue
Penrhys EVANS (1903-44)
* His parents were George
Alfred Penrhys Evans (1856-1927) and Cecilia
Camilla Evans, née Fortescue (1862-1955).
* His wife was Renée Evans, later Wansey.
* Their son was Nicholas Evans (c.1935-2013).
* Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Fortescue Penrhys Evans (1903-44) was killed in action on 21 May 1944 in the Battle of Monte Cassino during WW2.
* He bought ‘Clyst Cottage’ –
now ‘Clyst House’ – at 17 Boucher Road.
* You can read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-21-may-1944-england-he-loved.html
Cecilia Camilla EVANS, née Fortescue (1862-1955)
* Her parents were William Crawford Fortescue and Everilda Armenell Fortescue, née Marshall (1841-unknown)
* Her husband was Major George Alfred Penrhys EVANS (1856-1927).
* Their children were Audrey Fortescue Evans (1900-1977) and Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Fortescue Penrhys Evans (1903-44), who was killed in action on 21 May 1944 in the Battle of Monte Cassino during WW2.
* She was buried with her husband Major
George Alfred Penrhys EVANS (1856-1927) in St Peter’s Burial Ground.
* With her husband she lived at 'Furzedene', West Hill Lane, pictured above. At the time of her death she was
living at 3 Copplestone Road.
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Major George Alfred Penrhys EVANS (1856-1927)
* His parents were Colonel Henry William Evans (dates unknown) and Caroline Leonora Evans née Penrice (1822-1902)
* His wife was Cecilia Camilla Evans, née Fortescue (1862-1955)
* Their children were Audrey Fortescue Evans (1900-1977) and Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Fortescue Penrhys Evans (1903-44), who was killed in action on 21 May 1944 in the Battle of Monte Cassino during WW2.
* Major George Alfred Penrhys Evans (1856-1927)
was Governor of Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin, between 1890 and 1910. His spare time activities included amateur theatricals.
* In retirement at Budleigh Salterton he lived at ‘Furzedene’, West Hill Lane, continuing his interest in amateur theatrical shows, some of which were staged in the garden.
* He and his
wife Cecilia Camilla, née Fortescue (1862-1955) are buried in St Peter's
Burial Ground, as seen above.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-21-may-1944-england-he-loved.html
Dr Thomas Charles Cann EVANS (1885-1965). Budleigh Salterton’s GP, husband of author Isobel Dorothy Joyce Dennys (1893-1991) and friend of author Ronald Frederick Delderfield (1912-1972). Pictured above as Major Evans of the Australian Amy Medical Corps in which he enlisted in March 1916. He lived at 'Little Hill' in 1934, and later at 'Lion House' on Fore Street Hill.
* He was largely known in Budleigh as ‘Dr Tom’.
* ‘Tom is among the keenest riders to hounds in the county,’ wrote the author of Nobody Shouted Author. ‘Not long after I started going to him with unclassified illnesses I found that when in doubt he invariably prescribes hunting.’ However Delderfield also writes: ‘Tom is a conscientious doctor and doesn’t leave anything to chance.’
https://www.ova.org.uk/article/salterton-doctors-father-and-son-thomas-gc-thomas-cc-evans
Lady Alice Louisa EWING, née Douglas (1833-1913), pictured above © National Portrait Gallery. She lived at ‘Iona’, probably on Coastguard Road. She also owned a house called ‘Addiston’ on Coastguard Road.
* She was the third daughter of the 18th Earl of Morton and the sister-in-law of the Hon. Mark Rolle (1835-1907), younger brother of the 20th Baron Clinton.
* Both she and Mark Rolle contributed significantly to the building of St Peter’s Church.
* She laid the foundation stone for St Peter’s School, Moor Lane, on 18 September 1912.
* Her grave is in St Peter's Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://www.devonmuseums.net/Photos-sought-for-school-centenary-by-Museum/Latest-News/30/
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp143743/lady-alice-louisa-ewing-nee-douglas
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