Zachary Hamlyn
English lawyer (1677-1759) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zachary Hamlyn (1677–1759),[1] of Clovelly and Woolfardisworthy, three miles south-east of Clovelly, Devon, was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn and thought to be the first Clerk of the Journals of the House of Commons.[2] He made a large fortune and in 1738 purchased the manor of Clovelly from the last of the Cary family, longtime lords of the manor,[3] and made Clovelly Court his residence.[4]