[Illustration] John Baumfield, the ancestor of this family, became
possessed of Poltimore in the reign of Edward I.; but the pedigree
can be traced three generations before that period.
A younger branch was of Hardington in Somersetshire, extinct about
the beginning of the eighteenth century.
For the story of the heir of the Bamfyldes taken away and recovered,
see Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 121; see also Westcote's
Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 492; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 188; and
Lysons, cx.
ARMS.--_Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent_.
Present Representative, Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde,
2nd Baron Poltimore.