Earl Sondes

Earl Sondes, of Lees Court in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The title of Baron Sondes, of Lees Court in the County of Kent, was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1760 for Lewis Watson.

His younger son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his brother in 1836, assumed in 1820 by Royal licence the surname of Milles only.

The family seat of the Earls Sondes was Lees Court, in the village of Sheldwich, three miles south of Faversham.

Lees Court itself was entirely destroyed by fire in November 1910, but was carefully rebuilt and is now subdivided into private apartments.