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William Roope Ilbert, D.L., J.P. [Obituary]

Trans. Devon Assoc.,  vol. XXXIV, (1902), p. 38.

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J. Brooking-Rowe (Ed.)

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1902 Bideford meeting. An extensive history of the Ilbert family and their relationship to the mansion at Bowringsleigh is available here. William Roope Ilbert (the younger) added extensively to the ancient house on inheriting the estate on his father’s death in 1862. Mr Ilbert’s obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

William Roope Ilbert, D.L., J.P., became a member of the Association in 1877. and alwavs took much interest in its objects. On the two occasions when the Society visited Kingsbridge he invited the members to his fine house of Bowringsleigh, and gave them a warm welcome. On the last visit, in 1897, a considerable part of an afternoon was spent there in examining the house and its contents, and in wandering through the grounds. He was a County Magistrate, and for many years a member of the Board of Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, and Chairman of the Assessment Committee. To his exertions and generosity in a great measure Kingsbridge owes its railway. He had been in feeble health for many months before his death, which came somewhat suddenly on the 30th April, 1902. Mr. llbert was in his seventieth year.