Richard started formal schooling during this period. Richard and Henry returned full-time to life with two parents in this very rural village. He then re-married and moved to his native Devon, at King's Nympton from 1832-35. Richard Gordon, they moved with her to Elsfield Rectory, near Oxford.
Along with his older brother Henry (who became an eccentric in later life), he was sent off to care of Anne's sister Mary at Nottage Court, near Porthcawl. His mother, Anne (née Knight), died of typhus a few months after his birth. Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born in 1825 in the village of Longworth in Oxfordshire, where his father was Curate. He held both of these positions until his death in 1842. Meanwhile, in 1809 he became rector of Oare, then also Combe Martin in 1833. About 1780 he bought the advowson of the neighbouring parish of Charles hoping to become rector there, but the vacancy did not arise until 1840. John senior became curate of High Bray, where he married Mary Hunt and produced sons John (b1794) and Richard (b1798). John senior went to Tiverton School and ExeterCollege, Oxford, to which John junior followed. Their relatives, the Doddridges, came from the Devon line of Sir John Doddridge, the famous bachelor judge who lies buried under his effigy in Exeter cathedral. This caused a rift with Henry, the novelist’s full brother, who from then onwards adopted the surname Turberville. He passed the family estate there to the novelist’s father, also John Blackmore, who later sold East Bodley, West Hill and Bumsley to support his son Frederick, the novelist’s half brother. John Blackmore, the novelist’s grandfather, was born at Parracombe in 1764. In each generation there had been Richard or John Blackmores or both. From the 17th century or before they owned the farms of East Bodley and Barton and leased land in the neighbouring parish of Martinhoe at Killington and Bumsley. Records of Decisions and Access to DocumentsĪlthough Richard Doddridge Blackmore was not born in Devon, he claimed: "In everything, except the accident of my birth I am a Devonian my ancestry were all Devonians my sympathies and feelings are all Devonian." His family seems to have stemmed from the parish of Parracombe.
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