When Elizabeth Simcoe died in 1850, her grand plan of a family dynasty, rooted in the soil of East Devon, seemed assured.  Her son, the Rev. Henry Addington Simcoe, had four living sons of his own to carry on the Simcoe name.  His estate in Cornwall was thriving, and he was investing in that great, promising creature of the Industrial Revolution, the railway.  Wolford Lodge itself had become the centre of a sizeable estate with its tenant farms, its valuable timber “plantatio