William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay


William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay was an English peer who was the eldest son of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay and Lady Frances Finch.
He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay of Powderham Castle and 8th Earl of Devon on 16 May 1762 upon the death of his father.

Family

He married Frances Clack, daughter of Thomas Clack of Wallingford, Berkshire, on 7 May 1762 and with whom he had one son and twelve daughters, two of whom died young:
  1. Frances Courtenay married Sir John Honywood, 4th Baronet, and had five children.
  2. Charlotte Courtenay married Thomas Giffard, and had three children.
  3. Isabella Courtenay died aged 17 when her clothes caught fire
  4. Elizabeth Courtenay married Lord Charles Henry Somerset, and had five children.
  5. William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon
  6. Lucy Courtenay married John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, and had six children.
  7. Harriet Courtenay married George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret.
  8. Anne Courtenay married George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, and had two children.
  9. Caroline-Eustatia Courtenay married Colonel Charles Morland, and had two children.
  10. Amelia Courtenay, died aged 11.
  11. Matilda-Jane Courtenay married John Lock, and had two children.
  12. Sophia Courtenay married Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Foy.
  13. Louisa Augusta Courtenay married Lord Edward Somerset on 17 October 1805, and had three children.
And one illegitimate child. The mother of this child is unknown, all that is known is the child had the surname "Vane" and she was "akin" to Sir Henry Vane the Younger who died of beheading in 1662 over one hundred years earlier.
  1. Mary Ann Vane married Louis Chevalier, Seigneur du Saint-Paul of Quebec in approximately 1799. They had three children, Mary Sophia Chevalier, Philip David Chevalier and Mary Anne Chevalier.