Pile baronets of Compton-Beauchamp (1628)

Pile baronets
Escutcheon of the Pile baronets of Compton-Beauchamp
Creation date1628
Statusextinct
Extinction date1761
ArmsArgent, a cross between four nails gules[1]

The Pile baronetcy, of Compton in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 September 1628 for Francis Pile, a wealthy landowner in Wiltshire, for services to the Crown.[2][3]

The 2nd Baronet represented Berkshire in the Long Parliament, by recruiter election.[2][4] The title became extinct on the death of the 6th Baronet in 1761.[2]

Pile baronets, of Compton-Beauchamp (1628)

  • Sir Francis Pile, 1st Baronet (1589–1635)[2]
  • Sir Francis Pile, 2nd Baronet (c. 1617–1649)[2]
  • Sir Seymour Pile, 3rd Baronet (c. 1618–c. 1670)[2]
  • Sir Francis Pile, 4th Baronet (died c. 1689)[2]
  • Sir Seymour Pile, 5th Baronet (died c. 1730)[2]
  • Sir Francis Pile, 6th Baronet (died 1761), left no male heir.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Burke, John (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke. p. 414.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Cokayne, George Edward (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 56–57.
  3. ↑ Jordan, W. K. (28 October 2013). Philanthropy in England, 1480-1660: A Study of the Changing Patterns of English Social Aspirations. Routledge. p. 220 note 2. ISBN 978-1-135-65644-7.
  4. ↑ Brunton, Douglas; Pennington, Donald H. (1968). Members of the Long Parliament. Archon Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-208-00686-8.