The Baronetcy of Gresley of Drakelow was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for George Gresley of Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire who was later High Sheriff of Derbyshire and Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme.

[5][6] The Domesday Book recorded Nigel de Stafford holding the Manor of Drakelowe near the conclusion of the 11th century, and his descendants, the Gresleys, continued to hold it for nine hundred years – as long as any family in England is said to have owned the same manor.

[9] Drakelowe Hall, latterly the family seat, was a large Elizabethan mansion.

It mentions Charles Francis Gresley who married Clara Phillips, and states that the couple had no issue.

Richard Boultbee queried that, stating that they had three boys, the eldest of whom has living male Gresley descendants.