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40. Henry Woollcombe, Esq., f.s.a., Quarterly : 1 Arg. three bars 
gu.; Woollcombe. 2 Arg. a chev. gu. betw. three peacocks' heads 
erased ppr.; Pitts, of Yealmpton. 3 Gu. a lion ramp., double 
queued erm.; Stokes. J/. Arg. three bears' paws couped erect sa., 
within a bord. eng. of the second ; Bedford : on the centre of the 
quarterings a martlet or, for diff. Mr. Henry Woollcombe was the 
fourth son of Thomas Woollcombe, Esq., of Plymouth, by Priscilla 
his wife, daughter and co-heir of the Rev. John Bedford, m.a., vicar 
of Charles Church. He was born 1st May, and baptized 4th June, 
1777, at Charles Church, Plymouth. He was an attorney-at-law, 
Recorder of Plymouth, and Mayor of the town in 1813. He was 
the originator of the Plymouth Institution, in which he took an 
active interest, and of which he was long President; and the 
Society as incorporated is bound by its laws to commence its year 
and hold an anniversary meeting on the 1st of May in each year, 
by way of commemorating alike its foundation (in 1812) and the 
birthday of its founder. Mr. Woollcombe died unmarried in 
1847. 
41. Rev. Robert Lampen, m.a., Arg. on a bend sa. three rams' 
heads caboshed of the field, horns or, in chief a crescent gu. for 
diff.: imp. Gu. three saltires arg.; Gandy. The Rev. Robert 
Lampen, son of Robert Lampen and his wife Elizabeth, daughter 
of William Snow (second son of Henry, son of Henry Lampen 
and Barbara Renwell, married 9th January, 1719). He entered 
holy orders, was lecturer at St. Andrew Church, then incumbent 
of St. Andrew Chapel, and was appointed vicar of Probus 21st 
April, 1828; and died at The Sanctuary, Probus, 18th August, 
1849. He married Elizabeth Score, daughter of the Rev. John 
Gandy, m.a., vicar of St. Andrew and prebendary of Exeter, by 
his second wife, Margaret Whitelocke. By this lady he had issue 
two daughters — Elizabeth Gandy Lampen and Margaret White- 
locke Lampen, both unmarried. 
Mr. Lampen, beside holding various offices in this Society and 
being an active member of the first Building Committee, read various 
papers before the members as well as a discourse at the opening of 
the Athenseum, 4th February, 1819, printed in the Society's 
Transactions, 1830. 
42. William Prance, Esq., Arg. fretty az., over all a fess or; 
