Family and Education

b. 29 July 1709,1 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.

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Biography

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.

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754

Author: Sir Lewis Namier

Notes

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