Person:Edmund Prideaux (6)

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Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet (1675–1729). His only son died in infancy and the baronetcy thus passed to his first cousin.

His only daughter and heiress was Anne Prideaux (1718-1760) who married John Pendarvis Basset[21] (1713–1739) of Tehidy in the parish of Illogan in Cornwall. Her husband died in 1739 and then her only son John Prideaux Basset (1740 (posthumous)-1756) died in 1756 aged 16, at which point the Basset estates passed to his uncle, Francis Basset (died 1769). From that time therefore she may have lost her residence at Tehidy and required alternative housing. She thus purchased the palatial Haldon House in the parish of Dunchideock in Devon, from Sir John Chichester, 5th Baronet (1721-1784)[22] (who had inherited it from his wife) and was resident there in 1758.[23] She died in 1760, and appointed as trustees of her will her cousin Thomas Hawkins of Trewithen, and Rev. Thomas Carlyon of St. Just-in-Roseland. Her legatees included her cousin Charles Evelyn of Totnes, who assigned his inheritance in settlement of a debt to Samuel Squire, Bishop of St. Davids.[24]

Her husband was a member of the junior branch of the prominent Basset family of Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon in north Devon. She[25] (or her trustees) sold Haldon to John Jones, Esq., who sold Haldon to William Webber, Esq., who sold it to Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet.[26]