. . . . "John Davie"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1107524038"^^ . . . "30487279"^^ . . . . . . . . "John Davie (1640\u20131710) of Orleigh Court in the parish of Buckland Brewer, Devon, England, was a prominent tobacco merchant from Bideford, Devon. His Bideford town house which he built in 1688, was Colonial House, now the Royal Hotel, in which survive several 17th-century decorative plasterwork ceilings, said by Pevsner & Cherry (2004) to be amongst the best in Devon, and a grand staircase."@en . . . . . . "9201"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "John Davie (1640\u20131710) of Orleigh Court in the parish of Buckland Brewer, Devon, England, was a prominent tobacco merchant from Bideford, Devon. His Bideford town house which he built in 1688, was Colonial House, now the Royal Hotel, in which survive several 17th-century decorative plasterwork ceilings, said by Pevsner & Cherry (2004) to be amongst the best in Devon, and a grand staircase."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .