A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bastard, John Pollexfen

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 4 May, 1771.

Son and heir of William Bastard, of Kitley, co. Devon, where he was born in 1756, and where his family had been settled since the Conquest. He succeeded his father in 1782, and became Colonel of the East Devon Militia, in which capacity he put down a sudden revolt of the workmen in Plymouth Dockyard, and saved the docks, for which service he received the thanks of Parliament. He represented Devonshire in Parliament from 1784 to his death, 4 April, 1816.