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Hugh Squier
Hugh Squier (1625-1710) of Petty France, Westminster, was a wealthy merchant best remembered as a generous benefactor to the town of South Molton in Devon, the place of his birth, where in 1684 he founded a "free school".〔"Free school", as referred to in Hugh Squier's will.〕 ==Origins==
He was the 4th son of William Squier (c.1581-1653) (son of Christopher Squier (d.1629) of Townhouse), a yeoman, of Townhouse, South Molton, then what Hoskins (1959) calls a "mansion",〔Cock, p.173〕〔Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.98: "The ''mansion'' was usually the centre of a barton farm of two, three or four hundred acres"〕 today a farmhouse situated about 1 3/4 miles west of the centre of the town of South Molton, on the road to Chittlehampton. William Squire was educated at Lyme Regis and at Caius College, Cambridge.〔Cock, p.173〕 Hugh's mother was Jane Roberts, 3rd daughter and co-heiress of Richard Roberts (d.1622) of Combe Martin, Devon.〔Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.502, pedigree of Roberts (shown within pedigree of Buryott)〕 Richard Roberts, whose mural monument survives in Combe Martin Church,〔Vivian, p.502〕 was the owner of the demesne of the manor of Combe Martin and was patron of the churches of nearby Berry Narbor, Devon and of Chew Magna in Somerset.〔Vivian, p.502〕 Hugh Squier's uncle-by-marriage was the Devon historian Thomas Westcote (c.1567–c.1637), married to Mary Roberts (d.1666), his mother's elder sister.〔Vivian, p.502, pedigree of Roberts; p.778, pedigree of Westcott of Raddon〕
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