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John Pollexfen Bastard (18 September 1756 – 4 April 1816) was a British Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia who lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton, Devon. He married Sarah Bruton about 1780 who died in April 1808. On 2 July 1809 he married, at Portland Chapel Marylebone, Judith Anne Martin, daughter of Sir Henry Martin, naval commissioner at Portsmouth and Comptroller of the Navy. He left no children of either marriage. ==Defence of Plymouth== When colonel of the East Devonshire Militia his father, William Bastard, saved the arsenal of Plymouth from the French Fleet in August 1779 and, to recognise that, was gazetted a baronet on 4 September but he declined to assume the title.〔 *Bastard of Kitley, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland'', John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, second edition, John Russell Smith, London 1844, page 44,〕 Through his mother, born Bridget Poulett, William was a member of the Poulett, Bertie, Herbert and other influential families. In 1801 when colonel of the same regiment John Pollexfen Bastard quelled a riot of workmen and prevented the destruction of the Plymouth docks and dockyards. In 1815 he was conveyed by the Royal Navy to Leghorn (Livorno) for his health where he died the next year and was initially buried in the Old English Cemetery in Livorno, where his monument still stands. His body was returned to Devon in a man-of-war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Pollexfen Bastard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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