ملف:LewisWilliamBuck (1784-1858) AbbotshamChurch Devon.PNG

English: Mural monument in Abbotsham Church, Devon, to Lewis William Buck (1784-1858), MP, of Moreton House, (in parish of Abbotsham?), near Bideford and of Hartland Abbey, Devon. Inscription:

"This tablet is erected by his affectionate wife to the memory of her beloved husband lewis William Buck Esquire of Moreton and Hartland Abbey whose remains are interred near this place. He was a magistrate of this county and served the office of High Sheriff in 1826. He represented the City of Exeter in Parliament from 1826 to 1832 and the Northern Division of this county from 1839 to 1858. Born April 25th 1784, died April 25th 1858. Also to the memory of their beloved children: Ellen Catherine, died 30th August 1828 aged 2 years; Anne Bettina, died 12th September 1823 aged 14 years; Emma Helena, died 17th September 1849 aged 23 years. Also to the memory of Anne Buck wife of the above named Lewis William Buck, and daughter of Thomas Robbins Esq.re of Roundham, Hampshire, who died April 26th 1879 aged 88".

The arms shown are Baron: Quarterly of four: 1st: Per fess embattled argent and sable, three buck's attires each fixed to the scalp counterchanged (Buck); 2nd: Azure, a fess argent between three pears pendant or (Orchard of Hartland Abbey) (Lysons[1]); 3rd: Per pale ... and ... three battle axes (similar to Dennis of Orleigh)?; 4th: Or, a lion rampant sable on a chief indented of the second three mullets argent (Pawley of Gunwin in Lelant; his great-grandfather John Buck (d.1745) married Judith Pawley (d.1739), only child and heiress of William Pawley of Bideford (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.723)(Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6: Devon, 1822, Extinct Gentry Families[2]) impaling Femme: per pale argent and sable, a fleur-de-lys between two flaunches each charged with a fleur-de-lys all counterchanged (Robbins)

Crests: dexter: (Buck); sinister: A dexter arm couped at the elbow issuing from a mural crown, habited, azure, adorned with three fleur-de-lis, or, 1 and 2, the cuff turned up, ermine, holding in the hand, proper, a pear as in the field (Orchard) (Lysons[3])