Walter Palk
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Walter Palk (1742-1819), of Marley House (later renamed Syon Abbey) in the parish of Rattery, Devon, England, was a Member of Parliament for his family's Pocket Borough[2] of Ashburton in Devon from 1796 to 1811.[3] He served as Sheriff of Devon (1791-2) and in 1798 was a Captain in the Ashburton Volunteer Militia,[4] one of many such units formed across Devon to counter a possible invasion by Napoleon.