Pye baronets

The Baronetcy Pye of Leckhampstead was created on 27 April 1641 in the Baronetage of England, for Edmund Pye, who had purchased the Manor of Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire in 1628.

His daughter Martha married the John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace and their daughter Martha Johnson succeeded her paternal grandmother as 8th Baroness Wentworth.

When his brother, successor as fourth Baronet, also died unmarried in 1734 the baronetcy became extinct.

The Clifton estate was entailed and passed through the female line to Severne and Watkins.

When Charles Watkins, Rector of Clifton, died in 1833, the estate reverted to the Pyes of Faringdon, and was inherited by Harry James Pye (1802–1884) (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1840), the son of Henry James Pye, Poet Laureate (1790–1813).