PYE, Henry (1709-66), of Faringdon, Berks.

Family and Education

b. 29 July 1709,1Noble, Mem. House of Cromwell, ii. 110. 1st s. of Henry Pye of Faringdon by his 2nd w. Anne, da. of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, M.P., sis. of Benjamin Bathurst. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1725. m. 1743, Mary, da. of Rev. David James, rector of Woughton, Bucks., 3s. 1da. suc. fa. 1749.

Address

Main residence: Faringdon, Berks.

biography text

Pye, whose great-grandfather, Sir Robert Pye, auditor of the Exchequer under James I and Charles I, bought Faringdon in 1623, represented his county as a Tory without opposition till his death, 2 Mar. 1766, leaving his son, H.J. Pye, M.P., the poet laureate, an estate encumbered with debts amounting to £50,000.

Author

L.B.N.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. Noble, Mem. House of Cromwell, ii. 110.