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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
a crescent for diff. Samuel Eowe, the second son of Benjamin 
and Mary Eowe, was born 11th November, 1793, in the manor- 
house of Sherford Barton, in the parish of Brixton, South 
Devon, in which parish a branch of the family had held property 
since the 10th Richard II. His ancestors were the Eowes of 
Lamerton. He was educated first at home, then at a small 
school at Plympton ; afterwards at the Grammar School at 
Plympton, and finally at Cambridge. He commenced business 
as a bookseller and publisher in 1813, but afterwards took holy 
orders, being ordained priest in 1826. He was presented to St. 
Budeaux ; on the completion of St. Paul's, Stonehouse, he became 
its first minister, but shortly after he was transferred to the 
older church of St. George. Here he remained until 1835, when 
he was elected vicar of Crediton, where he continued until his 
death. Mr. Eowe married, in 1829, Sydney Neale, only daughter 
of — Neale, m.d. 
He was the author of a number of books. The work on which 
his reputation will beyond doubt rest, and by which he will be 
best known, is his Perambulation of Dartmoor. Mr. Eowe de- 
livered no less than forty -two lectures before this Society. 1 He 
died 15th September, 1853. 
48. Joseph Collier Cookworthy, m.d. — Arg. a chev. betiv. three 
cocks gu. : imp. Or three boars' heads erased gu., langued and 
tusked az. ; Urquhart — was the eldest son of Joseph Cookworthy, 
of Plymouth, by his second wife, Mary Eobins. He married Jane, 
second daughter of John Urquhart, of Nairnshire, KB., Captain 
H.M. 79th Foot, who died in 1884, by whom he had five sons and 
three daughters, of whom all except three died young. The second 
son, the Eev. Urquhart Cookworthy, is rector of Sandford Orcas, 
county Somerset. He married Elizabeth S. Bayley, daughter of 
James Bayley, Esq., j. p., of Willaston Hall, Cheshire, and Eum- 
leigh, county Devon. The eldest daughter, Mary Frances, married 
Thomas Webster, Esq., Q.c. Dr. Cookworthy married secondly 
the widow of the Eev. John Lloyd Lugger, but had no further 
issue, and died in 1869, aged 77 years. He was the great nephew 
of William Cookworthy, the discoverer of china clay, and manu- 
facturer of Plymouth china. 
1 See Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. xiv. 1882, pp. 395-401. 
