Pezé Pilleau

Pilleau's great-great-grandfather, also named Alexis, was responsible for the silver and gold reliquary for the Le Mans Cathedral in 1612.

Antique silver historian Arthur Girling Grimwade wrote that, "Pilleau's work, though comparatively rare, is characterised by fine proportion and finish.

Pilleau died in 1770 and left an estate at Wigborough, Essex, to his daughter Susanne, who founded the Lying-in-Charity for expecting mothers at Colchester.

[2] He had one surviving son, Isaac, who was an art connoisseur and helped the Earl of Liverpool curate his collection of pictures and engravings.

Sir Charles Travis Clay, librarian and antiquarian, was among his prominent descendants, born the grandson of Colonel Henry Pilleau.