Peyton baronets

The first and second Baronets both served as Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire.

This Sir John died unmarried soon after his preferment but the baronetcy was recreated on 21 March 1667 for his brother Algernon Peyton.

The Baronetcy was created for the third time on 18 September 1776 for Henry Dashwood, son of Margaret Peyton, daughter of Sir Sewster Peyton, second Baronet of the second creation.

From about 1830 the family was seated at Swifts House, Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire.

The second baronet served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1808 and the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Baronets served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1871, 1881, 1896 and 1928 respectively.