Editing John Bampton (section)

==Background to the benefaction==
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| short_title           = Oxford University and Earl of Radnor's Estates Act 1805
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| long_title            = An Act for effectuating an Exchange between the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and the Right Honourable Jacob Earl of Radnor.
| year                  = 1805
| citation              = [[45 Geo. 3]]. c. lxxxii
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| royal_assent          = 27 June 1805
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Bampton owned Nunton Farm, in southern Wiltshire near his parish, comprising land in [[Nunton]], [[Downton, Wiltshire|Downton]], and [[Britford]]. [[Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone]] wished to purchase it for his estate at [[Longford Castle]] which is just north-east of Nunton. Bampton was unwilling to sell, a dispute arose, and to put the land beyond Folkestone's reach, Bampton left it to the University of Oxford, which took possession around 1778 after his wife had died. Eventually [[Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor]], Folkestone's grandson, made an exchange in 1805 with the university of Nunton Farm for the Tinkersole estate at [[Wing, Buckinghamshire]], backed by a local act of Parliament, the '''{{visible anchor|Oxford University and Earl of Radnor's Estates Act 1805}}''' ([[45 Geo. 3]]. c. lxxxii).<ref name=DECH/>