Name Sir Harris, | ||
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (c. 1650 – 1686) of Hayne in the parish of Stowford in Devon (about 11 miles south-west of Okehampton), was four-times elected as a Member of Parliament for Okehampton in Devon, between 1671 to 1685.
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Origins
He was the only son and heir of John Harris (c.1586-1657) of Hayne in the parish of Stowford in Devon and of St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, a Member of Parliament, by his second wife Cordelia Mohun daughter of John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton.
Career
He succeeded his father on 6 March 1657. In 1671 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Okehampton. He was created a baronet "of Stowford" on 1 December 1673. He was re-elected MP for Okehampton in the two elections of 1679 and in 1681.
Marriage
He married (by licence dated 5 June 1673) Theophila Turner (d.1702), a daughter of John Turner, Serjeant-at-Law, of St Bride's in the City of London, and of York, by his wife Jane Pepys, a remote cousin of the diarist Samuel Pepys. The marriage was without progeny. She survived her husband and died at Greenwich and was buried on 27 July 1702 at Lifton.
Death & burial
He died at the age of about 36 and was buried on 20th February 1685/6 at Lifton, near Hayne, when the baronetcy became extinct.