George Parker Bidder

President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Contemporary of I. K. Brunel. Known as the "Calculating Boy" because of his prodigious mental arithmetic skills. Designed and built many railways, docks and bridges in Victorian England.
His clock and a stained glass window are in St. Peter's Church, Stoke Fleming, near Dartmouth where he died. He was born in Moretonhampstead where there is a commemorative plaque.

George Routleigh-Watchmaker

Monument removed to inside the church to prevent further deterioration. It ends...

He departed this life
Nov 14 1802
Wound up
In hopes of being taken in hand
By his Maker
And of being thoroughly cleaned, repaired
And set-going
In the world to come.

St. Petrock Church, Lydford.

Graves with Dates

These graves just have the date of the burial, nothing else.
St Petrock Church, Lydford.

Three Valiant Soldiers

In memory of three valiant soldiers of the 7th Royal Fusiliers who died on Dartmoor in a snowdrift 12 February 1853. Corp Joseph Penton, aged 20. Private Patrick Carlin aged 23. Geo Driver aged 27.

St. Michael & All Saints Church, Princetown.

Dartmoor Prison Graves

Numbered graves for Dartmoor Prison ex prisoners.

St. Michael & All Saints Church, Princetown.

Francis Farquharson V.C.

Major in 42 Regiment. Fought in the Indian Mutiny.

St. Andrews, Harberton

Frances Herbert, Viscountess Nelson

Near Exmouth, the tomb of Admiral Lord Nelson's wife.

St. Margaret and St. Andrew, Littleham

Albert Haslam

As Professor Anderton, travelled the country as a conjurer. Established the fairground business of Anderton & Rowland with his son who adopted the name Captain Rowland. They had a travelling menagerie and cinema before moving onto steam powered rides.

Drowned in the River Sid.

Sidmouth Cemetery.

Bertram Robinson

Went to Jesus College Cambridge. Author, "contributed" to Sherlock Holmes novels. Exhumation requested in 2005.
Did Conan Doyle even write The Hound of the Baskervilles? How much of an influence was his old friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, who lived in Ipplepen and first told him about the legend of the Dartmoor hound? When the story was published in book form in 1902, Conan Doyle included an acknowledgement to Fletcher Robinson for telling him of the hound legend. But it went no further than that.

St. Andrews Church, Ipplepen.

Richard Cabell

There is the suggestion that the legend of Squire Cabell was the basis for the Conan Doyle book - The Hound of the Baskervilles. The "sepulchre" for the Cabell family, in the middle distance, is alongside the burnt out ruins of Holy Trinity Church, Buckfastleigh.

St. Gregory the Great

Churchyard, Dawlish

The Hoare Family

Charles Hoare, the banker, was attracted by the climate and scenery of Dawlish. In 1800-4 John Nash built Luscombe Castle for him, about 1 m. west of the church, combining the external appearance of "our ancient baronial fortresses" with all modern comforts inside.

The family has a walled tomb inside the churchyard.

St. Gregory the Great, Dawlish.

William Pye

Commander William Pye served at Trafalgar on HMS Minotaur as Midshipman.

St. Gregory the Great, Dawlish.

Thomas Pearse

Thomas Pearse, serge maker.

Quaker Burying Ground, Finch Foundry, Sticklepath.

Thomas Pearse

Thomas Pearse built a summer house in Sticklepath, next to the Quaker Burying Ground. This notice is inside the house. He is featured in the song about the fair at Widecombe-in-the-Moor; "Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your grey mare..."

George Hewson

He served under Admiral Lord Nelson in many campaigns including Trafalgar.

Topsham cemetery.

Thomas Randle

...who was many years in the Royal Navy having served in several ships and as Quartermaster on board the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar...

St. Margaret, Topsham

Skene Craig

A founder of Melbourne, Australia.

Torquay cemetery.

Sir Edmund Hudson, MA, DSc, FRSE

Educated at Marlborough College, Cambridge and Heriot Watt. A director of ICI. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Torquay cemetery.

Isaac Singer

Singer sewing machines were big business.

Oldway mansion in Paignton was built by Mr. Singer, who reputedly had 5 "wives" and fathered 24 children, many of them interred in the same tomb.

Torquay cemetery.

John Pulsford

Author of "Quiet Hours" amongst others. Cleric who died in 1897.

Teignmouth cemetery.

Francois Guidon (Lieutenant)

French P.O.W from the Napoleonic war who died while on parole in Ashburton, aged 22, in 1817.
The tree behind the headstone is said to be from a cutting off the willow tree on St. Helena where Napoleon was buried. However, a quick search on the Internet will reveal that virtually every willow tree in the world came from this source.

Sr. Andrews, Ashburton.

Frederick Foot

Artist, born in Lustleigh, lived in Ashburton until 1908.

St. Andrews Ashburton.

James Spratt

Buried in Teignmouth, but so far not found.

Thomas Luny & James Wallace

Thomas Luny, marine artist, lived and died in Teignmouth. Buried with Captain James Wallace (half brother) who sailed under Nelson at Copenhagen.

St. James the Less, Teignmouth.

William Homeyard

Inventor of Liqufruta (spelled out backwards on the monument to avoid sanctions).

St. Nicholas, Ringmore, Shaldon.

Oliver Heaviside F.R.S

Buried in Paignton Cemetery, plot 346, close to the gatehouse. Physicist, mathematician and electrical engineer. Nominated for the Nobel Physics prize in 1912. Lived in Newton Abbot for many years close to Bradley Park. Look out for the blue plaque in his memory erected by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. (Now called the Institution of Engineering and Technology).

Olive Parr

Olive Parr wrote under the pen name of Beatrice Chase. Look on the other side of the stone monument. Was she related to Catherine Parr?
She died in 1955. The small granite cross on her grave is inscribed with Beatrice Chase on one side and Olive Katharine Parr on the other. Locals tell a story that she was taken to hospital in a straight jacket, but only after the loaded revolver she kept by her bed was taken away.

Widecombe in the Moor, St. Pancras.