Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Simcoe House was acquired as a seaside villa in 1797 by John Graves Simcoe 1752‒1806 The first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, present-day Ontario, and founder of Toronto. General Simcoe was brought up in Exeter and completed his education at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He joined the Army
in 1770 and commanded the Queen’s Rangers in the American War of Independence. During his administration of Upper Canada 1791‒1796 he laid the foundations for the orderly growth and development of the
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