Budleigh Past and Present

A transatlantic partner for Budleigh Salterton's Fairlynch Museum Most Devon people know about Sir Walter Raleigh as a pioneer of transatlantic links between their county and the US. Fewer know about the 18th century army officer brought up in Exeter, owning a holiday home in Budleigh Salterton, who spent only a few years of his life in Canada but became one of the country's national heroes. There's even a Canadian town named after him. A portrait of Simcoe by the French Candian painter George Theodore Berthon Such is the veneration in which John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806) is held across the Atlantic that Wolford Chapel, his last resting place on the family estate outside Honiton is now officially part of Canadian territory, having been donated to the people of Ontario in 1966. As Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada for five years from 1791 Simcoe, founded what is now the city of Toront...