There have been two baronetcies created for the Pye family. Both are now extinct. The Baronetcy Pye of Leckhampstead was created on 27 April 1641 in the Baronetage of England, for Edmund Pye, who had purchased the Manor of Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire in 1628. He was

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for Wycombe in 1661. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1673. His daughter Martha married the

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and their daughter Martha Johnson succeeded her paternal grandmother as 8th Baroness Wentworth. The Baronetcy of Pye of Hone was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 January 1665 for John Pye of Hone,

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second son of Sir Robert Pye of

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, Berkshire (1558–1662), Auditor of the Exchequer to

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and

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. His son, the second Baronet, acquired an estate at Clifton Hall,

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, Staffordshire in 1700 and served as Member of Parliament for

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in 1701. The third Baronet was also Member of Parliament for Derby in 1710. He died unmarried. When his brother, successor as fourth Baronet, also died unmarried in 1734 the baronetcy became extinct. The Clifton estate was entailed and passed through the female line to Severne and Watkins. When Charles Watkins, Rector of Clifton, died in 1833, the estate reverted to the Pyes of Faringdon, and was inherited by Harry James Pye (1802–1884) (

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in 1840), the son of

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(1790–1813).

Pye of Leckhampstead (1641)

Sir Edmund Pye, 1st Baronet Sir Edmund Pye, 1st Baronet ( – 1673) was an English landowner, Scrivener and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1673. Pye was the son of Edmund Pye, of Leckamsteed, Buckinghamshire and of St Martin's Ludgate, London, scriv ...

(1607–1673)

Pye of Hone (1665)

* Sir Kenneth John Pye, 1st Baronet (1626–1697) *

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(1651–1721) * Sir Richard Pye, 3rd Baronet (1689–1724) * Sir Robert Pye, 4th Baronet (1696–1734)

References

* ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' Joh Burke (1835) pp350–2 Google Books ( Pye of Faringdon and Hone) * ''Dictionary of National Biography'' Ed. Sidney Lee (2001) pp68–9 Google Books ( Pye of Faringdon) * {{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012 Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1641 establishments in England