Bastard baronetcy

The Bastard baronetcy, of Kitley in the County of Devon, was a title intended to be created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in September 1779 for William Bastard (1727–1782) in recognition of his actions in saving the arsenal of Plymouth from a French fleet in August of that year. The title was gazetted but Bastard declined to assume it and it did not ever pass the Great Seal.

Family tree

Family tree
William Bastard 1727–1782 Anne Worsley John Pollexfen Bastard 1756–1816 Edmund Bastard 1758–1816 Jane Pownoll Edmund Pollexfen Bastard 1784–1838 John Bastard RN 1787–1835 Rev P P Bastard
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References

• Bastard of Kitley, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, second edition, John Russell Smith, London 1844, page 44,