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2 unusual facts about Richard Stevens


Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton

Apart from the many valuable manors inherited from her father she also inherited the patronage of the Rolle pocket borough of Callington in Cornwall, and nominated in 1761 as its MP her Devon agent Richard Stevens (1702-1776), of Winscott, in the parish of Peters Marland, adjacent to Petrockstowe, who was the brother-in-law of Margaret's distant, but locally resident, cousin Henry Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1708-1750) of Stevenstone.

The Edw. Malley Co.

Malley's was a family business until 1971, when Edward Malley died, and it was sold to developer Richard Stevens, the man responsible for construction of the 1962 building.



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