with the area named for the Whipton Barton house demolished in the 1950s. For Exeter City Council, there is a specific Heavitree Ward. Notable people Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of the Bodleian Library, was born in Heavitree. Samuel James Bouverie Haydon (1815-1891) sculptor Richard Hooker (1554–1600) whose writings were very influential in the Church of England in his own time and later, was born in Heavitree. There is a statue to Hooker in the grounds of Exeter Cathedral. James Ford (1836–1877), cricketer Ned Sanders (1852–1904), cricketer Primrose Pitman (1902-1998) artist References Areas of Exeter Defunct breweries of the United Kingdom Former civil parishes in Devon