BARONETAGE
			Last updated 04/12/2024
			Names of baronets shown in blue
			have not yet proved succession and, as a
			result, their name has not yet been placed on
			the Official Roll of the Baronetage.
Date	Type	Order	Name	Born	Died	Age
			Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the baronet was
			baptised on that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate
			that the baronet was buried on that date
			PENNEFATHER of Golden,Tipperary
31 Jan 1924	UK	1	John de Fonblanque Pennefather	29 Mar 1856	8 Aug 1933	77
to			MP for Kirkdale 1915-1929
8 Aug 1933			Extinct on his death
			PENNINGTON of Muncaster,Cumberland
21 Jun 1676	E	1	William Pennington	16 Mar 1655	12 Jul 1730	75
12 Jul 1730		2	Joseph Pennington	4 Oct 1677	3 Dec 1744	67
			MP for Cumberland 1734-1744
3 Dec 1744		3	John Pennington	c 1710	26 Mar 1768
			MP for Cumberland 1745-1768. Lord Lieutenant
			Westmorland 1756-1758
26 Mar 1768		4	Joseph Pennington	20 Jan 1718	3 Feb 1793	75
3 Feb 1793		5	John Pennington	c 1740	8 Oct 1813
			He had previously been created Baron
			Muncaster (qv) in 1783 with which title
			the baronetcy then merged until its
			extinction in 1917
			PENNY of Singapore and
			Kingston-upon-Thames,Surrey
19 Jun 1933	UK	1	Frederick George Penny	10 Mar 1876	1 Jan 1955	78
			He was subsequently created Baron
			Marchwood (qv) in 1937 with which title
			the baronetcy remains merged
			PENNYMAN of Marske,Yorks
6 May 1628	E	1	William Pennyman	c 1607	22 Aug 1643
to			MP for Richmond 1640 and 1640-1642
22 Aug 1643			Extinct on his death
			PENNYMAN of Ormsby,Yorks
22 Feb 1664	E	1	James Pennyman	6 Mar 1608	24 Apr 1679	71
24 Apr 1679		2	Thomas Pennyman	29 Aug 1642	3 Aug 1708	65
3 Aug 1708		3	James Pennyman	c 1661	17 Nov 1745
17 Nov 1745		4	William Pennyman	1695	16 Apr 1768	72
16 Apr 1768		5	Warton Pennyman-Warton	c 1701	14 Jan 1770
14 Jan 1770		6	James Pennyman	6 Dec 1736	27 Mar 1808	71
			MP for Scarborough 1770-1774 and
			Beverley 1774-1796
27 Mar 1808		7	William Henry Pennyman	21 Jan 1764	9 May 1852	88
to			Extinct on his death
9 May 1852
			PENYSTON of Leigh,Essex
24 Sep 1611	E	1	Thomas Penyston	c 1592	c Sep 1642
			MP for Westbury 1640
c Sep 1642		2	Thomas Penyston		29 May 1674
May 1674		3	Thomas Penyston	c 1648	c 1679
c 1679		4	Fairmedow Penyston	1656	24 Dec 1705	49
to			Extinct on his death
24 Dec 1705
			PEPPERELL of Boston,Massachusetts
15 Nov 1746	GB	1	William Pepperell	27 Jun 1696	6 Jul 1759	63
to			Extinct on his death
6 Jul 1759
			PEPPERELL of Boston,Massachusetts
9 Nov 1774	GB	1	William Pepperell		13 Dec 1816
to			Extinct on his death
13 Nov 1816
			PEPYS of Upper Brook Street,London
22 Jan 1784	GB	1	Lucas Pepys	24 May 1742	17 Jun 1830	88
17 Jun 1830		2	Charles Leslie	28 Sep 1774	4 Feb 1833	58
4 Feb 1833		3	Henry Leslie	21 Sep 1783	8 Jul 1849	65
8 Jul 1849		4	Charles Christopher Pepys	29 Apr 1781	29 Apr 1851	70
			He had previously been created Baron
			Cottenham (qv) in 1836 with which title
			the baronetcy remains merged
			PEPYS of Wimpole Street,London
23 Jun 1801	UK	1	William Weller Pepys		2 Jun 1825
2 Jun 1825		2	William Weller Pepys	4 May 1778	5 Oct 1845	67
5 Oct 1845		2	Charles Christopher Pepys	29 Apr 1781	29 Apr 1851	70
			He had previously been created Baron
			Cottenham (qv) in 1836 with which title
			the baronetcy remains merged,although,as at
			30/06/2014,the baronetcy does not appear on
			the Official Roll of the Baronetage
			PERCEVAL of Burton
9 Sep 1661	I	1	John Perceval	7 Sep 1629	5 Nov 1665	36
5 Nov 1665		2	Philip Perceval	12 Jan 1656	11 Sep 1680	24
11 Sep 1680		3	John Perceval	22 Aug 1660	29 Apr 1686	25
29 Apr 1686		4	Edward Perceval	30 Jul 1682	9 Nov 1691	9
9 Nov 1691		5	John Perceval	12 Jul 1683	1 May 1748	64
			He was subsequently created Earl of Egmont
			(qv) in 1733 with which title the
			baronetcy remained merged until its extinction
			in 2011
			PERKS of Wykham Park,Oxon
24 Jul 1908	UK	1	Robert William Perks	24 Apr 1849	30 Nov 1934	85
			MP for Louth 1892-1910
30 Nov 1934		2	Robert Malcolm Mewburn Perks	29 Jul 1892	23 Sep 1979	87
to			Extinct on his death
23 Sep 1979
			PERRING of Membland,Devon
3 Oct 1808	UK	1	John Perring	26 Apr 1765	30 Jan 1831	65
			MP for New Romney 1806-1807 and Hythe
			1810-1820
30 Jan 1831		2	John Perring	25 Sep 1794	8 Oct 1843	49
8 Oct 1843		3	Philip Perring	15 Jan 1797	25 Apr 1866	69
25 Apr 1866		4	Philip Perring	15 Jul 1828	8 Jun 1920	91
to			Extinct on his death
8 Jun 1920
			PERRING of Frensham Manor,Surrey
27 Nov 1963	UK	1	Ralph Edgar Perring	23 Mar 1905	28 Jun 1998	93
28 Jun 1998		2	John Raymond Perring	7 Jul 1931	21 Jun 2020	88
21 Jun 2020		3	John Simon Pelham Perring	20 Jul 1962
			PERROTT of Plumstead,Kent
1 Jul 1716	GB	1	James Perrott		1731
1731		2	Richard Perrott	c 1716	1796
1796		3	Edward Bindloss Perrott	1 Sep 1784	24 Mar 1859	74
24 Mar 1859		4	Edward George Lambert Perrott	10 May 1811	4 Jun 1886	75
4 Jun 1886		5	Herbert Charles Perrott (see also below)	26 Oct 1849	15 Feb 1922	72
to			Extinct on his death
15 Feb 1922
			PERROTT of Plumstead,Kent
21 Jun 1911	UK	1	Herbert Charles Perrott	26 Oct 1849	15 Feb 1922	72
to			CH 1918
15 Feb 1922			Extinct on his death
			PESHALL of Horsley,Staffs
25 Nov 1611	E	1	John Peshall	22 Feb 1562	13 Jan 1646	83
13 Jan 1646		2	John Peshall	30 Sep 1628	1701
1701		3	Thomas Peshall		29 Feb 1712
to			On his death the baronetcy is presumed to
Feb 1712			have become extinct
			PETIT of Petit Hall,Bombay
1 Sep 1890	UK	1	Dinshaw Manockjee Petit	30 Jun 1823	5 May 1901	77
			For details of the special remainder included
			in the creation of this baronetcy,see the note
			at the foot of this page
5 May 1901		2	Dinshaw Manockjee Petit	7 Jun 1873	29 Mar 1933	59
29 Mar 1933		3	Dinshaw Manockjee Petit	24 Jun 1901	24 Sep 1983	82
24 Sep 1983		4	Dinshaw Manockjee Petit	13 Aug 1934	31 Mar 1998	63
31 Mar 1998		5	Dinshaw Manockjee Petit	21 Jan 1965
			PETO of Somerleyton Hall,Norfolk
22 Feb 1855	UK	1	Samuel Morton Peto	4 Aug 1809	13 Nov 1889	80
			MP for Norwich 1847-1854, Finsbury
			1859-1865 and Bristol 1865-1868
13 Nov 1889		2	Henry Peto	10 Aug 1840	6 Apr 1938	97
6 Apr 1938		3	Henry Francis Morton Peto	18 Nov 1889	28 May 1978	88
28 May 1978		4	Henry George Morton Peto	29 Apr 1920	17 Dec 2010	90
17 Dec 2010		5	Francis Michael Morton Peto	11 Jan 1949
			PETO of Barnstaple,Devon
27 Jan 1927	UK	1	Basil Peto	13 Aug 1862	28 Jan 1945	82
			MP for Devizes 1910-1918 and Barnstaple
			1922-1923 and 1924-1935
28 Jan 1945		2	James Michael Peto	8 May 1894	24 Mar 1971	76
24 Mar 1971		3	Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto	19 Feb 1897	19 May 1980	83
			MP for Barnstaple 1945-1950
19 May 1980		4	Michael Henry Basil Peto	6 Apr 1938	2 Aug 2008	70
2 Aug 2008		5	Henry Christopher Morton Bampfylde Peto	8 Apr 1967
			PETRE of Cranham Hall,Essex
c 1642	E	1	Francis Petre	c 1605	c 1660
c 1660		2	Francis Petre	c 1630	c 1679
c 1679		3	Edward Petre	c 1632	15 May 1699
15 May 1699		4	Thomas Petre	1640	c 1715
c 1715		5	William Petre	1650	22 Feb 1722
to			Extinct on his death
22 Feb 1722
			PETRIE of Carrowcarden,co.Sligo
20 Jun 1918	UK	1	Sir Charles Petrie	23 Feb 1853	8 Jul 1920	67
8 Jul 1920		2	Edward Lindsay Haddon Petrie	30 Sep 1881	13 Dec 1927	46
13 Dec 1927		3	Charles Alexander Petrie	28 Sep 1895	13 Dec 1977	82
13 Dec 1977		4	Charles Richard Borthwick Petrie	19 Oct 1921	8 Mar 1988	66
8 Mar 1988		5	Peter Charles Petrie	7 Mar 1932	28 Oct 2021	89
28 Oct 2021		6	Charles James Petrie, OBE	16 Sep 1959
			PETTUS of Rackheath,Norfolk
23 Sep 1641	E	1	Thomas Pettus		21 Nov 1654
21 Nov 1654		2	Thomas Pettus		1671
1671		3	John Pettus	c 1640	29 Oct 1698
29 Oct 1698		4	Horatio Pettus	c 1672	9 Mar 1731
9 Mar 1731		5	John Pettus		May 1743
May 1743		6	Horatio Pettus		31 Jul 1772
to			Extinct on his death
31 Jul 1772
			PEYTON of Isleham,Cambs
22 May 1611	E	1	John Peyton	c 1560	19 Dec 1616
			MP for Cambridgeshire 1593 and 1604-1611
Dec 1616		2	Edward Peyton		Apr 1657
			MP for Cambridgeshire 1621-1622,1624-
			1625,1625 and 1626
Apr 1657		3	John Peyton	2 Nov 1607	c 1666
c 1666		4	John Peyton		23 Mar 1720
23 Mar 1720		5	Yelverton Peyton		10 Oct 1748
10 Oct 1748		6	Charles Peyton		6 Nov 1760
6 Nov 1760		7	John Peyton		6 Jul 1772
6 Jul 1772		8	Yelverton Peyton	c 1739	18 Oct 1815
to			Extinct on his death
18 Oct 1815
			PEYTON of Knowlton,Kent
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Samuel Peyton	c 1590	1623
1623		2	Thomas Peyton	c 1613	11 Feb 1684
to			MP for Sandwich 1640-1644
11 Feb 1684			Extinct on his death
			PEYTON of Doddington,Cambs
10 Dec 1660	E	1	John Peyton		25 Dec 1661
to			Extinct on his death
25 Dec 1661
			PEYTON of Doddington,Cambs
21 Mar 1667	E	1	Algernon Peyton	c 1645	c 1671
c 1671		2	Sewster Peyton		28 Dec 1717
28 Dec 1717		3	Thomas Peyton	1702	29 Jun 1771	68
to			Extinct on his death
29 Jun 1771
			PEYTON of Doddington,Cambs
18 Sep 1776	GB	1	Henry Peyton	13 Apr 1736	1 May 1789	53
			MP for Cambridgeshire 1782-1789
1 May 1789		2	Henry Peyton	1 Jul 1779	24 Feb 1854	74
			MP for Cambridgeshire 1802
24 Feb 1854		3	Henry Peyton	30 Jun 1804	18 Feb 1866	61
			MP for Woodstock 1837-1838
18 Feb 1866		4	Algernon Peyton	13 Apr 1833	25 Mar 1872	38
25 Mar 1872		5	Thomas Peyton	9 Jul 1817	18 Feb 1888	70
18 Feb 1888		6	Algernon Francis Peyton	24 Nov 1855	11 Apr 1916	60
11 Apr 1916		7	Algernon Peyton	4 Jan 1889	14 Mar 1962	73
to			Extinct on his death
14 Mar 1962
			PHELIPPS of Barrington,Somerset
16 Feb 1620	E	1	Thomas Phelipps	15 Jun 1590	29 Apr 1627	36
			MP for Winchester 1625
29 Apr 1627		2	Thomas Phelipps	Mar 1621	5 Mar 1644	22
Mar 1644		3	James Phelipps	c 1625	22 Oct 1652
22 Oct 1652		4	James Phelipps	16 Jul 1650	1 Mar 1690	39
to			Extinct on his death
1 Mar 1690
			PHILIPPS of Picton Castle,Pembroke
9 Nov 1621	E	1	John Philipps		27 Mar 1629
			MP for Pembrokeshire 1597-1598 and 1601
27 Mar 1629		2	Richard Philipps		c 1648
c 1648		3	Erasmus Philipps	c 1623	18 Jan 1697
			MP for Pembrokeshire 1654-1655 and 1659
18 Jan 1697		4	John Philipps	c 1666	5 Jan 1737
			MP for Pembroke 1695-1702 and
			Haverfordwest 1718-1722
5 Jan 1737		5	Erasmus Philipps	c 1700	15 Oct 1743
			MP for Haverfordwest 1726-1743
15 Oct 1743		6	John Philipps	c 1701	23 Jun 1764
			MP for Carmarthen 1741-1747, Petersfield
			1754-1761 and Pembrokeshire 1761-1764
23 Jun 1764		7	Richard Philipps,later [1776] 1st and only
			Baron Milford	c 1744	28 Nov 1823
			MP for Pembrokeshire 1765-1770 and 1786-
			1812 and Haverfordwest 1784-1786
28 Nov 1823		8	Rowland Perry Philipps-Laugharne-Philipps	Jan 1788	23 Apr 1832	44
23 Apr 1832		9	William Philipps-Laugharne-Philipps	2 Oct 1794	17 Feb 1850	55
17 Feb 1850		10	Godwin Philipps-Laugharne-Philipps	10 Jan 1840	12 Feb 1857	17
12 Feb 1857		11	James Evans Philipps	16 Nov 1793	14 Feb 1873	79
14 Feb 1873		12	James Erasmus Philipps	23 Oct 1824	21 Feb 1912	87
21 Feb 1912		13	John Wynford Philipps	30 May 1860	28 Mar 1938	77
			He was subsequently created Viscount
			Saint Davids (qv) in 1918 with which title
			the baronetcy remains merged,although as ar
			30/06/2014 the baronetcy does not appear on
			the Official Roll of the Baronetage
			PHILIPPS of Picton Castle
			and Kilgetty Park,Pembroke
13 Feb 1828	UK	1	Richard Bulkeley Philipps	7 Jun 1801	3 Jan 1857	55
			He was subsequently created Baron
			Milford (qv) in 1847 with which title the
			baronetcy then merged until its extinction
			in 1857
			PHILIPPS of Picton,Pembroke
23 Jul 1887	UK	1	Charles Edward Gregg Philipps	6 Oct 1840	5 Jun 1928	87
			Lord Lieutenant Haverfordwest 1876-1925
5 Jun 1928		2	Henry Erasmus Edward Philipps	9 Mar 1871	23 May 1938	67
23 May 1938		3	John Erasmus Gwynne Alexander Philipps	11 Sep 1915	27 Nov 1948	33
27 Nov 1948		4	Richard Foley Foley-Philipps	24 Aug 1920	4 Nov 1962	42
to			Extinct on his death
4 Nov 1962
			PHILIPPS of Llanstephan,Radnor
22 Sep 1919	UK	1	Laurence Richard Philipps	24 Jan 1874	7 Dec 1962	88
			He was subsequently created Baron
			Milford (qv) in 1939 with which title the
			baronetcy remains merged
			PHILIPS of Weston,Warwicks
21 Feb 1828	UK	1	George Philips	24 Mar 1766	3 Oct 1847	81
			MP for Ilchester 1812-1818,Steyning 1818-1820,
			Wootton Bassett 1820-1830 and Warwickshire
			South 1832-1835
3 Oct 1847		2	George Richard Philips	23 Dec 1789	22 Feb 1883	93
to			MP for Horsham 1818-1820,Steyning 1820-1832,
22 Feb 1883			Kidderminster 1835-1837 and Poole 1837-1852
			Extinct on his death
			PHILIPSON-STOW of Cape Town,South
			Africa and Blackdown House,Sussex
26 Jul 1907	UK	1	Frederic Samuel Philipson-Stow	28 Sep 1849	17 May 1908	58
17 May 1908		2	Elliot Philipson Philipson-Stow	12 Jul 1876	23 Sep 1954	78
23 Sep 1954		3	Frederic Lawrence Philipson-Stow	19 Sep 1905	9 Jan 1976	70
9 Jan 1976		4	Edmond Cecil Philipson-Stow	25 Aug 1912	14 Jun 1982	69
14 Jun 1982		5	Christopher Philipson-Stow	13 Sep 1920	18 Aug 2005	84
18 Aug 2005		6	Robert Matthew Philipson-Stow	29 Aug 1953
			PHILLIMORE of The Coppice,Shiplake,Oxon
21 Dec 1881	UK	1	Robert Joseph Phillimore	5 Nov 1810	19 May 1885	74
			MP for Tavistock 1853-1857.  PC 1867
19 May 1885		2	Walter George Frank Phillimore	21 Nov 1845	13 Mar 1929	83
			He was subsequently created Baron
			Phillimore (qv) in 1918 with which title
			the baronetcy remains merged
			PHILLIPPS of Middle Hall,Worcs
27 Jul 1821	UK	1	Thomas Phillipps	2 Jul 1792	6 Feb 1872	79
to			Extinct on his death
6 Feb 1872			For information on this baronet,see the note
			at the foot of this page
			PHILLIPS of Grosvenor Gardens,London
27 Aug 1897	UK		See "Faudel-Phillips"
			PHILLIPS of Tylney Hall,Hants
10 Feb 1912	UK	1	Lionel Phillips	6 Aug 1855	2 Jul 1936	80
			For further information on this baronet, see the
			note at the foot of this page
2 Jul 1936		2	Lionel Francis Phillips	9 Mar 1914	6 Jul 1944	30
6 Jul 1944		3	Robin Francis Phillips	29 Jul 1940
			PICKERING of Titchmarsh,Northants
5 Jun 1638	NS	1	Gilbert Pickering	c Mar 1611	1668	57
1668		2	John Pickering	c 1640	3 Apr 1703
Apr 1703		3	Gilbert Pickering	c 1669	29 Feb 1736
			MP for Leiciestershire 1708-1710
29 Feb 1736		4	Edward Pickering	c 1715	10 Jul 1749
to			MP for Mitchell 1745-1747
10 Jul 1749			Extinct on his death
			PICKERING of Whaddon,Cambs
2 Jan 1661	E	1	Henry Pickering		4 Nov 1668
			MP for Cambridgeshire 1654,1656 and 1659
4 Nov 1668		2	Henry Pickering	c 1655	7 May 1705
to			MP for Morpeth 1685-1689 and Cambridge
7 May 1705			1698-1705
			Extinct on his death
			PICKTHORN of Orford,Suffolk
31 Jan 1959	UK	1	Kenneth William Murray Pickthorn	23 Apr 1892	12 Nov 1975	83
			MP for Cambridge University 1935-1950 and
			Carlton 1950-1966.  PC 1964
12 Nov 1975		2	Charles William Richards Pickthorn	3 Mar 1927	20 Jun 1995	68
20 Jun 1995		3	James Francis Mann Pickthorn	18 Feb 1955
			PIERCE of Pierce Court,Cavan
21 Jun 1622	I	1	Henry Pierce		6 Nov 1638
6 Nov 1638		2	George Pierce	c Apr 1624	c Aug 1649	25
to			Extinct on his death
c Aug 1649
			PIERS of Stonepit,Kent
24 Mar 1638	NS	1	Thomas Piers	c 1616	7 Apr 1680
7 Apr 1680		2	Thomas Piers	c 1643	26 Aug 1693
Aug 1693		3	George Piers	25 Oct 1670	7 May 1720	49
to			On his death the baronetcy became dormant
7 May 1720
			PIERS of Tristernagh Abbey,co.Westmeath
18 Feb 1661	I	1	Henry Piers	c 1628	19 Sep 1691
19 Sep 1691		2	William Piers	c 1653	2 Jun 1693
2 Jun 1693		3	Henry Piers	1678	14 Mar 1734	55
14 Mar 1734		4	John Piers		14 Feb 1747
14 Feb 1747		5	Pigott William Piers	c 1742	Apr 1798
Apr 1798		6	John Bennet Piers	c 1775	22 Jul 1845
22 Jul 1845		7	Henry Samuel Piers	6 May 1811	15 Apr 1850	38
15 Apr 1850		8	Eustace Fitz-Maurice Piers	28 Oct 1840	10 May 1913	72
10 May 1913		9	Charles Pigott Piers	27 Jun 1870	27 Jun 1945	75
27 Jun 1945		10	Charles Robert Fitzmaurice Piers	30 Aug 1903	1 Jan 1996	92
1 Jan 1996		11	James Desmond Piers	24 Jul 1947
			PIGOT of Patshull,Staffs
5 Dec 1764	GB	1	George Pigot,later [1766] 1st Baron Pigot	4 May 1719	11 May 1777	58
			For details of the special remainder included
			in this creation, see the note at the foot of
			this page
11 May 1777		2	Robert Pigot	20 Sep 1720	11 Aug 1796	75
			MP for Wallingford 1768-1772
11 Aug 1796		3	George Pigot	29 Oct 1766	24 Jun 1841	74
24 Jun 1841		4	Robert Pigot	3 Nov 1801	1 Jun 1891	89
			MP for Bridgnorth 1832-1837 and 1838-1853
1 Jun 1891		5	George Pigot	15 Dec 1850	25 May 1934	83
25 May 1934		6	Robert Pigot	3 May 1882	27 Dec 1977	95
27 Dec 1977		7	Robert Anthony Pigot	6 Jul 1915	30 Nov 1986	71
30 Nov 1986		8	George Hugh Pigot	28 Nov 1946
			PIGOTT of Knapton,Queen's Co.
3 Oct 1808	UK	1	George Pigott	22 Oct 1766	28 May 1844	77
28 May 1844		2	Thomas Pigott	12 Oct 1796	7 Oct 1847	50
7 Oct 1847		3	Charles Robert Pigott	13 Apr 1835	5 May 1911	76
5 May 1911		4	Berkeley Pigott	29 May 1894	9 May 1982	87
9 May 1982		5	Berkeley Henry Sebastian Pigott	24 Jun 1925	6 Aug 2017	92
6 Aug 2017		6	David John Berkeley Pigott	16 Aug 1955
			PIGOTT-BROWN of Broome Hall,Surrey
5 Jan 1903	UK	1	Alexander Hargreaves Brown	11 Apr 1844	12 Mar 1922	77
			MP for Wenlock 1868-1885 and Wellington
			1885-1906
12 Mar 1922		2	John Hargreaves Brown (Pigott-Brown
			from 6 May 1925)	16 Aug 1913	25 Dec 1942	29
25 Dec 1942		3	William Brian Pigott-Brown	20 Jan 1941	1 Jun 2020	79
			Extinct on his death
			PILDITCH of Bartropps,Surrey
28 Jun 1929	UK	1	Sir Philip Edward Pilditch	12 Aug 1861	17 Dec 1948	87
			MP for Spelthorne 1918-1931
17 Dec 1948		2	Philip Harold Pilditch	30 Oct 1890	6 Dec 1949	59
			For information on the death of this baronet,
			see the note at the foot of this page
6 Dec 1949		3	Philip John Frederick Pilditch	10 Aug 1919	11 May 1954	34
			For further information on this baronet, see the
			note at the foot of this page
11 May 1954		4	Richard Edward Pilditch	8 Sep 1926	30 Jun 2012	85
30 Jun 2012		5	John Richard Pilditch	24 Sep 1955
			PILE of Compton,Berks
12 Sep 1628	E	1	Francis Pile	15 Jun 1589	1 Dec 1635	46
1 Dec 1635		2	Francis Pile	c 1617	12 Feb 1649
			MP for Berkshire 1645-1649
12 Feb 1649		3	Seymour Pile	c 1618	c 1670
c 1670		4	Francis Pile		c 1689
c 1689		5	Seymour Pile		c 1730
c 1730		6	Francis Pile		4 May 1761
to			Extinct on his death
4 May 1761
			PILE of Kenilworth House,co.Dublin
24 Sep 1900	UK	1	Thomas Devereux Pile	27 Feb 1856	17 Jan 1931	74
17 Jan 1931		2	Frederick Alfred Pile	14 Sep 1884	14 Nov 1976	92
14 Nov 1976		3	Frederick Devereux Pile	10 Dec 1915	1 Nov 2010	94
1 Nov 2010		4	Anthony John Devereux Pile	7 Jun 1947
			PILKINGTON of Chevet Hall,Yorks
29 Jun 1635	E		See "Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington"
			PINDAR of Idinshaw,Cheshire
22 Dec 1662	E	1	Peter Pindar		c 1693
c 1693		2	Thomas Pindar		c 1694
c 1694		3	Paul Pindar	c 1680	c 1705
to			Extinct on his death
c 1705
			PINSENT of Selly Hill,Warwicks
3 Feb 1938	UK	1	Richard Alfred Pinsent	3 Aug 1852	2 Oct 1948	96
2 Oct 1948		2	Roy Pinsent	22 Jul 1883	16 Dec 1978	95
16 Dec 1978		3	Christopher Roy Pinsent	2 Aug 1922	19 Aug 2015	93
19 Aug 2015		4	Thomas Benjamin Roy Pinsent	21 Jul 1967
			PIRIE of Camberwell,Surrey
1842	UK	1	John Pirie	1781	26 Feb 1851	69
to			Extinct on his death
26 Feb 1851
			PLATT of Rusholme,Lancs
29 Jan 1958	UK	1	Sir Harry Platt	7 Oct 1886	20 Dec 1986	100
20 Dec 1986		2	Frank Lindsey Platt	16 Jan 1919	11 Feb 1998	79
to			Extinct on his death
11 Feb 1998
			PLATT of Grindleford,Derby
14 Jul 1959	UK	1	Robert Platt,later [1967] Baron Platt [L]	16 Apr 1900	30 Jun 1978	78
30 Jun 1978		2	Peter Platt	6 Jul 1924	3 Aug 2000	76
3 Aug 2000		3	Martin Philip Platt	9 Mar 1952
			PLAYTERS of Sotterley,Suffolk
13 Aug 1623	E	1	Thomas Playters		18 May 1638
18 May 1638		2	William Playters	17 Jan 1590	24 Apr 1668	78
Apr 1668		3	Lyonel Playters	4 Mar 1605	5 Oct 1679	74
5 Oct 1679		4	John Playters	21 Apr 1636	25 Aug 1721	85
Aug 1721		5	John Playters	18 May 1680	11 Dec 1768	88
11 Dec 1768		6	John Playters	26 Sep 1742	26 May 1791	48
26 May 1791		7	Charles Playters		1806
1806		8	William John Playters		23 Sep 1832
to			Extinct on his death
23 Sep 1832
			PLENDER of Ovenden,Sundridge,Kent
16 Jul 1923	UK	1	William Plender	20 Aug 1861	19 Jan 1946	84
			He was subsequently created Baron Plender
			(qv) in 1931 with which title the
			baronetcy then merged until its extinction
			in 1946
			PLEYDELL of Coleshill,Berks
15 Jun 1732	GB	1	Mark Stuart Pleydell	c 1693	14 Oct 1768
to			Extinct on his death
14 Oct 1768
			PLOMER of Inner Temple,London
4 Jan 1661	E	1	Walter Plomer	c 1621	26 Apr 1697
to			Extinct on his death
26 Apr 1697
			POCOCK of Hart,Durham
18 Aug 1821	UK	1	George Pocock	15 Oct 1765	14 Jul 1840	74
			MP for Bridgwater 1796-1806 and 1807-1820
14 Jul 1840		2	George Edward Pocock	2 Apr 1792	3 Sep 1866	74
3 Sep 1866		3	George Francis Coventry Pocock	21 Dec 1830	6 Dec 1915	84
6 Dec 1915		4	Charles Guy Coventry Pocock	3 Nov 1863	31 Mar 1921	57
to			Extinct on his death
31 Mar 1921
			POE-DOMVILLE of Heywood,Queen's Co.
2 Jul 1912	UK	1	William Hutcheson Poe	20 Sep 1848	30 Nov 1934	86
			Lord Lieutenant Queen's County 1920-1922
30 Nov 1934		2	Hugo Compton Domvile Poe (Poe-Domvile
to			from 1939)	19 Jun 1889	28 Jul 1959	70
28 Jul 1959			Extinct on his death
			POLE of Shute House,Devon
12 Sep 1628	E	1	John Pole		16 Apr 1658
			MP for Devon 1626
16 Apr 1658		2	Courtenay Pole	17 Feb 1619	13 Apr 1695	76
			MP for Honiton 1661-1679
Apr 1695		3	John Pole	17 Jun 1649	13 Mar 1708	58
			MP for Lyme Regis 1685-1690,Bossiney
			1698-1701, Devon 1701-1702,East Looe
			1702-1705 and Newport 1707-1708
13 Mar 1708		4	William Pole	17 Aug 1678	31 Dec 1741	63
			MP for Newport 1701-1702 and 1708-1710,
			Camelford 1704-1708, Devon 1710-1712,
			Bossiney 1713-1715 and Honiton 1716-1727
			and 1731-1734
31 Dec 1741		5	John Pole	c 1733	19 Feb 1760
19 Feb 1760		6	John William Pole (de la Pole from 1789)	27 Jun 1757	30 Nov 1799	42
			MP for West Looe 1790-1796
30 Nov 1799		7	William Templer Pole	2 Aug 1782	1 Apr 1847	64
1 Apr 1847		8	John George Reeve-de la Pole	21 Jan 1808	19 May 1874	66
19 May 1874		9	William Edmund de la Pole	3 Jul 1816	21 Mar 1895	78
21 Mar 1895		10	Edmund Reginald Talbot de la Pole	22 Feb 1844	26 Aug 1912	68
26 Aug 1912		11	Frederick Arundell de la Pole	25 Dec 1850	12 Feb 1926	75
12 Feb 1926		12	John Gawen Carew Pole-Carew (Pole from 28	4 Mar 1902	26 Jan 1993	90
			May 1926)
			Lord Lieutenant Cornwall 1962-1977
26 Jan 1993		13	John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole	2 Dec 1938	1 Dec 2024	85
1 Dec 2024		14	Tremayne John Carew Pole	22 Feb 1974
			POLE of Wolverton,Hants
28 Jul 1791	GB	1	Charles Pole	14 Jan 1735	18 Jun 1813	78
18 Jun 1813		2	Peter Pole	25 Oct 1770	30 Aug 1850	79
			MP for Yarmouth IOW 1819-1826
30 Aug 1850		3	Peter Pole (Van Notten-Pole from 11 Jun 1853)	11 Feb 1801	13 May 1887	86
13 May 1887		4	Cecil Pery Van Notten-Pole	30 Sep 1863	21 May 1948	84
21 May 1948		5	Peter Van Notten Pole	6 Nov 1921	31 Jan 2010	88
31 Jan 2010		6	John Chandos Pole	27 Apr 1952
			POLE of the Navy
12 Sep 1801	UK	1	Charles Morrice Pole	18 Jan 1757	6 Sep 1830	73
to			MP for Newark 1802-1806 and Plymouth
6 Sep 1830			1806-1818
			Extinct on his death
			POLLARD of Kings Nympton,Devon
31 May 1627	E	1	Lewis Pollard	c 1578	c 1645
c 1645		2	Hugh Pollard	c 1610	27 Nov 1666
			MP for Beeralston 1640-1641,
			Callington 1660-1661 and Devon 1661-1666
27 Nov 1666		3	Amyas Pollard	c 1617	7 Jun 1701
to			Extinct on his death
Jun 1701
			POLLEN of Redenham,Hants
15 May 1795	GB	1	John Pollen	c 1731	17 Aug 1814
17 Aug 1814		2	John Walter Pollen	6 Apr 1784	2 May 1863	79
			MP for Andover 1820-1831 and 1835-1841
2 May 1863		3	Richard Hungerford Pollen	19 Oct 1815	9 Apr 1881	65
9 Apr 1881		4	Richard Hungerford Pollen	6 Oct 1846	5 May 1918	71
5 May 1918		5	Richard Pollen	23 Jun 1878	18 Aug 1930	52
18 Aug 1930		6	John Lancelot Hungerford Pollen	27 Apr 1884	14 Mar 1959	74
14 Mar 1959		7	John Michael Hungerford Pollen	6 Apr 1919	13 Feb 2003	83
13 Feb 2003		8	Richard John Hungerford Pollen	3 Nov 1946
			The special remainder to the baronetcy of Petit created in 1890
			From the "London Gazette" of 2 September 1890 (issue 26084, page 4773):-
			'The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the
			United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United
			Kingdom unto Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, of Petit Hall, in the Island of Bombay, Knt. for and
			during the term of his natural life; and from and immediately after his decease to Framjee
			Dinshaw Petit, Esq. second son of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, and the heirs male of
			his body lawfully begotten; and, in default of such issue, with remainder to the heirs male of
			the body of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit.'
			Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st and only baronet
			Phillipps was a bibliomaniac who amassed during his lifetime possibly the largest private
			collection of books and manuscripts ever assembled. The following biography appeared in the
			Australian monthly magazine "Parade" in its issue for June 1970:-
			'In 1945 a London bookseller paid £125,000 for the last remaining portion of the library of Sir
			Thomas Phillipps, the most famous, eccentric, and probably most hated bibliomaniac in history.
			It had taken Phillipps's descendants 70 years to sell off what had once been the largest
			collection of rare books and manuscripts ever assembled by one man and the total amount
			realised was more than £500,000. Today the hoard is scattered among libraries, museums and
			millionaires' collections all over the world and the fantastic story of how it was put together
			has been almost forgotten.
			"I wish to own one copy of every book ever printed," Sir Thomas once declared. If he did not
			succeed it was certainly not for the want of trying. In the process he drove one wife to death,
			half starved his family, cheated, slandered and was embroiled in an endless series of quarrels.
			Not until the half-crazy old recluse died in 1872 did scholars discover the real value of his
			lifelong accumulation. It included 25,000 medieval manuscripts, 200,000 printed books (many of
			them the rarest in existence) and an almost incalculable hoard of other literary and historic
			papers. No collector on record had ever reared such a staggering monument to his obsession
			as Sir Thomas Phillipps.
			'Phillipps was born in Manchester in 1792, the illegitimate son of a wealthy calico manufacturer
			who took him into his household and accepted him as his heir. Two years later Phillipps senior
			retired and bought the mansion and 6000-acre estate of Middle Hill near the Worcestershire
			village of Broadway. Young Thomas was reared as befitted a squire's heir. He was a student at
			[Rugby and] Oxford when his love of old books began to develop into a passion for collecting.
			He left the university pursued by the clamours of unpaid booksellers, having spent all his
			allowance on buying every battered old volume on which he could lay his hands.
			'His father angrily paid his debts. A few years later came another parental explosion when
			Thomas turned aside from his books long enough to fall in love. The object of his affection was
			Henrietta Molyneux, the daughter of an aristocratic but poor Irish family, whom Phillipps senior
			regarded as a mere fortune hunter. However, in 1818, the old man conveniently died of
			apoplexy. Two months later Thomas and Henrietta were married and settled into the manor
			house at Middle Hill. With an income of £10,000 a year and an adoring young wife with many
			influential connections, the new squire could look forward to a comfortable and prosperous
			career. The only handicap, the stain of his birth, was removed in 1821 when one of Henrietta's
			kinsmen, the Duke of Beaufort, persuaded King George IV to create Phillipps a baronet.
			'However, Sir Thomas' passion for his library was already deepening into a mania to which every
			other interest was ruthlessly sacrificed. He spent months in London haggling with booksellers,
			negotiating with private dealers and sending agents all over the country to ferret out old
			documents and volumes likely to come on the market. Hundreds of crates arrived at Middle Hill
			until the library was stacked to the ceiling and they overflowed into bedrooms, passages and
			even Henrietta's breakfast parlour.
			'When his ready cash was all spent, Phillipps pledged his future income or borrowed from money-
			lenders at enormous interest rather than let a prize escape his grasp. Several times he was
			threatened with prosecution by booksellers he tried to cheat. In 1822, with writs showering on
			Middle Hill, the crash came. Leaving two servants to guard his treasure with shotguns, Phillipps
			fled to Europe with his wife, planning to restore his finances by living in strict economy for
			several years. However, the temptations dangled before him by booksellers and private owners
			in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Berlin and The Hague proved irresistible.
			'Scores of the great collections of European princes, nobles and monasteries had been broken
			up during the upheaval of the Napoleonic Wars and were flooding the antiquarian markets.
			Raising £15,000 by mortgaging part of his estates, Phillipps plunged into a buying orgy that
			made the rich English milord the sensation of the bookselling world. His prizes included heaps of
			glorious illuminated parchments from the abbeys of France and Flanders, classical manuscripts,
			ancient biblical texts, missals, feudal charters and hundreds of the earliest printed books.
			Everywhere he travelled he was besieged by dealers only too happy to accept drafts on milord's
			London bankers - many of which were not honoured for years.
			'In 1825, when he decided it was safe to return home,, Phillipps took with him 36 huge chests
			containing the greatest bibliophilic haul ever to reach England in one lot. His catalogue
			astounded scholarly circles and made him the envy of librarians. His creditors, however, were
			not so favourably impressed. By 1830 Phillipps owed £25,000 to London booksellers alone and
			one unfortunate victim was hustled to prison as a bankrupt when the baronet's cheques were
			returned dishonoured. Unpaid tradesmen laid siege to Middle Hill. Henrietta and her three
			children were reduced to starvation rations and the staff was cut to a single decrepit retainer.
			When a tax collector called at the mansion, Phillipps assaulted him with a cudgel and was lucky
			to escape with a heavy fine.
			'In 1831 he was forced to raise another mortgage, ostensibly to pay his most pressing debts.
			In fact, all the money went into further huge purchases of books and manuscripts. This was
			the last straw for his unhappy wife. Exhausted by the battle to feed and clothe her children
			and terrified by the duns [debt-collectors] hammering on the door, she "was seized with an
			oppression of the brain" and died in March 1832. Phillipps wasted no time on vain regrets. Soon
			he was asking a friend: "Do you know of any lady worth £50,000 who wants a husband? I am
			for sale at that price." The baronet's heiress-hunt lasted nine years and his reputation was so
			unsavoury that eventually he had to settle for a parson's daughter with a meagre dowry of
			£3500. Even then he took her only after extorting from her widowed mother a contract to pay
			his wife's yearly clothing allowance.
			'Meanwhile, by dint of mortgaging, borrowing, delaying payments by litigation and other dubious
			expedients, Phillipps went on satisfying his mania. He paid £7500 for a great store of medieval
			documents from Battle Abbey and another £5000 for the manuscript library of the famous
			collector Richard Heber [MP for Oxford University 1821-1826]. He browbeat the bankrupt William
			Upcott [1779-1845] into parting with 32,000 royal and diplomatic letters and other historic
			papers, the largest hoard of its kind in the world, in exchange for a pension of £150 a year -
			and then had to be sued for payment. He bought cartloads of valuable old Foreign Office and
			Treasury papers which he found the Government had been selling to a waste dealer at £8 a ton.
			'By the 1840s it was reputed that the Phillipps collection was worth at least £125,000, though
			the few scholars invited to Middle Hill were horrified by the spectacle they encountered. Amid
			dust and mouldy bindings, almost every room was crammed to the ceiling with crates, chests
			and shelves, leaving only narrow passages for the owner to crawl through. Books had gradually
			ousted the family from bedrooms, dining-room and drawing-room until the servants' quarters
			became the sole refuge to eat and sleep. No window could be opened. Furniture and wallpaper
			were rotten with decay. For several years Phillipps had been unable to reach his own bed and
			reposed on a sofa fully dressed. No cheese was allowed in the house in case it attracted mice.
			Scattered about were logs smeared with paste which the baronet explained were baits to lure
			the worms out of his old books.
			'In this dim squalor the baronet's three teenage daughters were kept toiling like slaves at the
			hopeless task of sorting and arranging the mass of treasures. All the girls finally escaped by
			marrying, but Phillipps never forgave his eldest and favourite, Harriet, for her desertion. Harriet
			ran away with a young Cambridge scholar, James Halliwell [1820-1889, Shakespearean scholar
			and collector of English folk and  fairy tales], whom the baronet had unwarily invited to Middle
			Hill as a reward for collecting manuscripts for him. Thereafter he hounded the "heartless bitch"
			and her husband with venomous fury for the rest of his life. He accused Halliwell of stealing
			manuscripts from the [Trinity College, Cambridge] university library. He mortgaged his estate
			to the hilt and even cut down the timber so that his heiress would inherit as little as possible
			when he died. Most of the money went in purchases of the rarest items when the famous
			libraries of the royal Duke of Sussex and the spendthrift Duke of Buckingham came on the
			market.
			'However, in the 1850s the baronet's reputation as a connoisseur suffered a heavy blow through
			his dealings with the mysterious Constantine Simonides. For years Simonides [1820-1867] had
			been travelling around Europe peddling what he claimed were priceless biblical and classical
			manuscripts obtained from the Greek monasteries of Mount Athos. German experts had branded
			him a rascally forger. In England the British Museum and the Bodleian Library at Oxford rejected
			his offers with contempt.
			'Phillipps thought he knew better. Simonides was summoned to Middle Hill and before his frauds
			were finally exposed the Greek had unloaded 22 costly documents on the famous collector.
			They included a "2000-year-old" Homer written on vellum and the "oldest known" scrolls of
			Pythagoras, Hesiod, Anacreon and other authors of classical antiquity. Even when the disgraced
			Simonides died of leprosy in Egypt in 1867, Phillipps was still asserting that at least 10 of his
			purchases were genuine.
			'The baronet's last years were a sordid chronicle of eccentricity verging on madness, morose
			seclusion, endless law-suits and bitter family quarrels. In 1863 he left ruinous Middle Hill and
			moved to a much larger house near Cheltenham. Processions of carts took six months to
			transport his library across the countryside. He died in 1872. The dispersal of his collection
			began eight years later.'
			Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st baronet
			Sir Lionel was a London-born mining magnate in South Africa from the 1890s onwards. The
			following account of his attempted assassination appeared in 'The Times' on 12 December
			1913:-
			'Sir Lionel Phillips was shot yesterday in the streets of Johannesburg as he was going to the
			Rand Club for luncheon. His assailant, named Nisnun [actually Misnun], fired four shots, two of
			which hit Sir Lionel in the neck and the thigh. Sir Lionel was taken to hospital in a taxicab by Sir
			Percy Fitzpatrick, who happened to be passing, and at a late hour last night a bulletin was
			issued that one of the bullets had pierced his lung and the other his liver. The patient's general
			condition, however, was good.
			'From our correspondent - Johannesburg, Dec. 11 [1913]:-
			'Sir Lionel Phillips was shot today as he was walking to the Rand Club for luncheon. The best
			account of the attack is given by a man named Kelly, who took the revolver out of the would-
			be assassin's hands. Kelly states that he noticed Sir Lionel Phillips walking along the pavement.
			Opposite Beart's shop a man accosted him, and after a few words drew a revolver and fired a
			shot. The shot went wide, and Sir Lionel Phillips tried to grip his assailant, who fired a second
			shot, hitting Sir Lionel in the stomach.
			'Sir Lionel crouched and tackled his assailant, again trying to seize the revolver. A third shot
			was then fired, and Kelly ran to Sir Lionel's assistance. As he reached the spot a fourth shot
			was fired.
			"As I ran," said Kelly, "the man pointed a revolver at me and appeared to pull the trigger, but it
			missed fire. I grabbed hold of his pistol arm, and then another man came to my aid and seized
			the murderer's other arm. When the police arrived we handed the man over. When I first caught
			hold of him the man said, 'Let me go; I want to shoot myself. It's all right; I won't run away.' "
			'Nisnun, the assailant, whom is a Jewish storekeeper on the Ferreira Deep Mine, had sued the
			New Rietfontein Company to recover wages pledged to him by the natives for money he had
			lent them. The Appeal Court at Bloemfontein decided against him, and Nisnun then started a
			store at Ferreira Deep. He gave credit to the natives and tried to collect debts himself from
			natives in the compound. He was stopped by the company, and, imagining himself wronged,
			determined to take revenge on Sir Lionel Phillips.
			'Sir Percy Fitzpatrick gave the following account of the attack:-
			"I was driving down Commissioner-street in my motor-car going home to lunch, and my man
			Anderson was sitting beside me, when I heard a report which I thought was that of a burst
			tire on a passing motor-bicycle. Then there was a second report and I also heard something
			sing past in front of me which I knew was a shot. At that moment Anderson said to me:-
			"It's Sir Lionel Phillips they're shooting." We both jumped out of the car. We left it in the
			middle of the street and ran towards the man who was shooting. I saw him fire two shots,
			and when I got about three yards from him somebody had him up against a window near
			Beart's.
			"I saw Sir Lionel stagger and I caught him. Another gentleman was helping him, but I do not
			know who he was. Sir Lionel behaved perfectly splendidly. He said he was shot in the neck
			and the side and that he felt the pain in the neck first and was suffering a good deal of pain.
			He was perfectly cool, however, and said nothing about his assailant."
			'A crowd collected immediately after the man began his attack, and he tried alternately to
			keep the people at bay and to fire at his victim. He was, however, seized by a man named
			Kelly and the driver of a passing taxicab named Ruff. As they closed with him he attempted
			to shoot himself, but the bullet went into the air and left him uninjured.
			'In the meantime Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and others had placed Sir Lionel Phillips in the taxicab,
			and he was quickly driven to hospital, where it was found that two of the bullets had taken'
			effect, one in the hip and the other in the neck. After a careful examination, however, the
			doctors announced that the condition of the patient was not serious, and he was soon
			resting quietly.
			'Following his unsuccessful attempt at suicide, Sir Lionel's assailant remained perfectly cool,
			and said to those who had seized him, "All right, you need not knock me about." The attitude
			of the crowd, however, was very menacing, and Mr. Jordan, an assistant magistrate, who was
			nearby when the shooting occurred, took charge of matters and bundled the man into a cab,
			which was driven off to the police station.
			'In conversation this evening Mr. Jordan said:- "The people behaved extraordinarily well when
			they saw who I was, and they made way for me to the inside of the crowd, where I found a
			policeman in charge of a little Jew, who was well known to me. The crowd were very angry,
			and I took him by the arm and assisted the policeman to get him away."
			'At the police station he gave the name of John L. Nisnun, and described himself as a store-
			keeper on the Ferreira Mine, and of Russian nationality. He had in his possession a five-
			chambered revolver, four chambers of which had been discharged. One cartridge remained
			in the weapon, and two others were found in the man's pocket.'
			At his subsequent trial, Misnun was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
			The special remainder to the baronetcy of Pigot created in 1764
			From the "London Gazette" of 20 November 1764 (issue 10472, page 1):-
			'The King has been pleased to grant unto George Pigot, Esq; late Governor of Fort St. George
			in the East Indies, and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten; and, in Default of such
			Issue, to his Brother, Robert Pigot, Esq; Lieutenant-Colonel in His Majesty's Army, and the Heirs
			Male of his Body lawfully begotten; and, in Default of such Issue, then to his Brother Hugh
			Pigot, Esq; Captain in His Majesty's Royal Navy, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully
			begotten, the Dignity of a Baronet of the Kingdom of Great Britain. And the said George Pigot
			had this Day the Honour to kiss His Majesty's Hand upon the Occasion.'
			Sir Philip Harold Pilditch, 2nd baronet
			Sir Philip died after falling from a roof in December 1949. The following report on the subsequent
			inquest appeared in 'The Irish Times' on 10 December 1949:-
			'A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the inquest yesterday in London on Sir Philip
			Harold Pilditch (59), baronet, and partner of Pilditch, Chadwick and Co., architects and
			surveyors, who fell to his death from the roof of the firm's offices in Old Bond street, London,
			on Tuesday. Sir Philip fell about 60 feet into an enclosed bomb site from the four-storey
			building.'
			Sir Philip John Frederick Pilditch, 3rd baronet
			Sir Philip was found shot dead in a wood at Crawley, Sussex in May 1954, a .22 rifle by his side.
			His car had been found empty in Crawley two days before. The interesting facet to this case
			was that, at the time of his death, Sir Philip's widow was pregnant. As a result, the succession
			to the baronetcy was held in abeyance until the birth of the child. If the child proved to be a
			boy, he would immediately inherit the baronetcy, but if a girl was born, the baronetcy would
			pass to the late baronet's brother. In the event, a girl was born, and the baronetcy passed to
			Richard Pilditch, brother of Sir Philip.
			Three other cases of a similar nature were that of John Buxton Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester,
			Sir Anthony Frederick Mark Palmer, 4th baronet and Sir John Geoffrey James Briscoe, 6th
			baronet. Chichester and Palmer were killed in action during WWII and at the times of their
			respective deaths, their wives were pregnant. In both instances a son was eventually born,
			who inherited his respective title the moment he was born. Sir John Briscoe's father was killed
			in a motor crash in 1954, and when his son was born four months later, he immediately became
			a baronet.
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