Champernowne was the second son of Sir Philip Champernowne of Modbury, Devon, whose family had lived in Devon since arriving from Cambernon in Normandy in the eleventh century as part of the Norman Conquest.
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Champernowne personally delivered 64 boxes of treasure weighing some 8 tonnes safely to the tower of London, worth some 2 million Royales.
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The Count, whose immediate forebears were Scots, was Captain of the Scots Guards.
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Sir Arthur Champernowne (1524 – 29 March 1578) was a politician and Vice-Admiral of the West who lived at Dartington Hall in Devon, England.
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Married to Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Randall William McDonnell Callander (died 1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas House, Argyle, and had issue (1) Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, and Ashford Hall Salops), (2) Elizabeth (married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon), and (3) Barbara (died young).
At age 13 on 19 September 1576 he married Elizabeth Champernowne, daughter of Sir Arthur Champernowne (d.1578), Vice-Admiral of the West under Queen Elizabeth I, of Dartington Hall, Devon, having been betrothed to her for about ten years.