page_title: Tapeley
section_title: John Clevland (1734–1817)
hierarchical_section_title: Tapeley / Descent / Clevland / John Clevland (1734–1817)
caption_attribution_description: English: Mural monument to Mrs Elizabeth Stevens (1727-1792), the daughter and heiress of Richard Stevens of Winscott, in the parish of Peters Marland, Devon and wife of John II Clevland (1734–1817), of Tapeley, MP for Barnstaple in seven parliaments and Director of Greenwich Hospital. Inscribed as follows: "To the memory of Mrs Elizabeth Clevland wife of John Clevland Esq., Member of Parliament for the Borough of Barnstaple (where he has been chosen six successive parliaments) and daughter of Richard Stevens of Winscott. She died 16 September 1792 aged 65 years" Below is a white marble relief sculpted escutcheon showing the following arms: Quarterly 1st &amp; 4th: Azure, a hare salient or collared gules pendent therefrom a bugle horn stringed sable (Clevland)&#160;; 2nd &amp; 3rd: Vert, two bars engrailed between three leopard's faces or (Child baronets, of the City of London (1685), Child of Surat, East Indies and Dervill, Essex, Baronet, created 1684, extinct 1753) (Burke's Armorials, 1884) the arms of William Clevland's mother Elizabeth Child). Overall is an inescutcheon of pretence of Stevens: Per chevron azure and gules, in chief two falcons rising belled or.
context_page_description: Tapeley is a historic estate in the parish of Westleigh in North Devon, England.
  The present mansion house known as Tapeley Park is a grade II* listed country house, built or enlarged from an existing structure in about 1704, remodeled in the 19th century and again in the early 20th century when pilasters, portico, pediment and parapet were added to create a Queen Anne style building. In the mid 19th century the estate was inherited from the Clevland family by William Langham Christie of Glyndebourne in Sussex. His grandson was John Christie, the founder of Glyndebourne Opera Festival, who bequeathed Tapeley to his daughter Rosamund Christie, who passed it onto her nephew Hector Christie, who briefly turned it into a hippie commune. In 2011 Tapeley Park was the subject of an episode of the Channel 4 television programme Country House Rescue, presented by the hotelier Ruth Watson, who advised on restoring the estate to a sound financial position.
  The gardens are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. They are open to the public on a regular basis and feature Italianate terraces, a working kitchen garden and a permaculture garden.
context_section_description: John Clevland (1734–1817), of Tapeley, eldest son and heir by his father's first wife, was MP for Barnstaple in seven parliaments and was Director of Greenwich Hospital. He married Elizabeth Stevens (1727–1792), the daughter and heiress of Richard Stevens (1702–1776) of Winscott, in the parish of Peters Marland, Devon, Member of Parliament for Callington in Cornwall (1761–1768). He left no children and was pre-deceased by all five of his younger brothers and half-brothers. A mural monument to his wife survives in Peters Marland Church inscribed as follows:
  "To the memory of Mrs Elizabeth Clevland wife of John Clevland Esq., Member of Parliament for the Borough of Barnstaple (where he has been chosen six successive parliaments) and daughter of Richard Stevens of Winscott. She died 16 September 1792 aged 65 years"
  Below is a white marble relief sculpted escutcheon showing the following arms: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Clevland; 2nd & 3rd: Vert, two bars engrailed between three leopard's faces or (Child baronets, of the City of London (1685) (Child of Surat, East Indies and Dervill, Essex, Baronet, created 1684, extinct 1753), the arms of William Clevland's mother Elizabeth Child). Overall is an inescutcheon of pretence of Stevens: Per chevron azure and gules, in chief two falcons rising belled or.
caption: Mural monument to Elizabeth Stevens (1727–1792), wife of John Clevland (1734–1817), Peters Marland Church
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