He inherited the
baronetcy on the death of his father in 1677.[4]
In 1689 Fowell was elected
Member of Parliament for
Totnes in Devon, and sat until his death in 1692.[5] He was one of the 151 MPs who voted against making the Prince of Orange king, but in favour of declaring Princess Mary queen.[4]
Death and succession
Fowell died unmarried at the age of 26 when the baronetcy became extinct.[4] His heirs were his two surviving sisters, who until 1711 held the Fowell estates of Fowelscombe and Ludbrooke in co-parcenary:[6]
Elizabeth Fowell (d.post-1680), who in 1679 married (as his 1st wife) George Parker (1651-1743)[7] of
Boringdon in the parish of Colebrook, and of
North Molton, both in Devon. The marriage was without progeny, but by his second wife Anne Buller, George Parker was the grandfather of
John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon (d. 1788), whose son was
John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley (1772–1840) of
Saltram House.
Margaret Fowell, who in 1679 married (as his 1st wife) Arthur Champernowne of
Dartington,[8] Devon, and was the mother of
Arthur Champernowne (d.1717) of Dartington, MP for Totnes.[9]
In 1711 a division of the estates took place, with Fowelscombe going to the Champernowne family, which held it until 1758,[10]
^Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.385
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the
Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.370; p.588, pedigree of Parker