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PEYTO-VERNEY, JOHN, 14th BARON WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, son of Right Hon. John Verney PC MP, Master of the Rolls, and Abigail, only dau. of Edward Harley (at school under Busby, qv); b. 4 Aug 1738; adm. Apr 1748 (Watts'); succ. uncle as 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke 11 Aug 1752; in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 May 1755; MA 28 Jun 1758; DCL 3 Jul 1759; a Lord of the Bedchamber to George III 1 Jan 1763 – Mar 1812; assumed surname of Peyto before that of Verney c. 1772; m. 8 Oct 1761 Lady Louisa North, eldest dau. of Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford; d. 15 Feb 1816.

PEYTON, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir (Charles) Sewster Peyton, Bart., and Anne, second dau. of George Dashwood, Alderman of London; b.; succ. father as 3rd baronet 28 Dec 1717; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1717/8; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 6 Jul 1719, matr. 1720 (described on admission as having been educated by Dr. Uvedale at Enfield, education at Westminster not mentioned); Grand Tour (Italy) 1724-5; of Hogbeach Hall, Emneth, Norfolk, and of Doddington, Cambs.; High Sheriff, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1742-3; m. 1 Jan 1732 Bridget, only dau. of Thomas Skeffington, Skeffington, Leics.; d. 29 Jun 1771.

PEYTON, HENRY, brother of Sir Thomas Peyton, Bart. (qv); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 26 Aug 1706 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Apr 1721; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 23 Mar 1723/4, matr. 1724; MA [check] 1728; d. unm. 25 Sep 1741.

PEYTON, DANIEL; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1726; left 1726.

PEYTON, ALGERNON, second son of Sir Henry Peyton (formerly Dashwood), Bart., MP, and Frances, sister of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (qv); grandson of George Dashwood (qv); b. 19 Aug 1786; in school list 1803; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; BA 1809; MA 1812; ordained; Rector of Doddington, Cambs., from 28 May 1811; JP Isle of Ely; m. 22 Jun 1811 Isabella Anne, youngest dau. of Thomas Hussey, Galtrim, co. Meath; d. 1 Nov 1868.

Pewtress, Michael Ernest, brother of Herbert Leslie Pewtress (qv); b. 17 Jan. 1932; adm. Sept. 1945 (R); left July 1949; dir. East Marlborough & Co. and Holt Jackson Book Co; chmn. of both cos. 1981-92; m. 19 Apr. 1958 Vivian Ann, d. of Wilham Mitchell Kidman of Barnet, Herts; d. 20 July 2006.

Pewtress, Herbert Leslie, son of Bernard Leslie Pewtress of New Barnet, Herts, and Winifred Beatrice, d. of Herbert James Scott of Highbury; b. 8 Apr. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left Apr. 1938; RAFVR 1942-5 (Flt Lieut.), AFC Jan. 1944; diR.E. Marlborough & Co., wholesale newsagents, until 1974; later chairman Holt Jackson Book Co.; a member of Lloyd's until 1968; m. 4 Sept. 1943 Margaret Elsie, d. of G. C. Sanderson of Barnet, Herts; d. 11 Dec. 1981.

PETTY-FITZMAURICE, WILLIAM THOMAS, EARL OF KERRY, elder son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne (qv); b. 24 Mar 1811; adm. 5 Jun 1822 (G); left Whitsun 1827; MP (Whig) Calne from 1832; m. 18 Mar 1834 Lady Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby, second dau. of John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough PC, Lord Lieut. Ireland; d. 21 Jul 1836.

PETTY-FITZMAURICE, HENRY, 4TH MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, younger son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne (qv); b. 5 Jan 1816; adm. 30 Jun 1826 (recorded as Packharness', likely Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Dec 1833, fellow commoner 29 Jan 1834, matr. Mich. 1834; styled Earl of Shelburne 1836-63; MP (Whig) Calne 1837 – 14 Jul 1856; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 24 Dec 1847 – Aug 1848; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 5 Jul 1856 – 26 Feb 1858; called up to House of Lords in father’s barony as Baron Wycombe 14 Jul 1856; Chairman, Great Western Railway 1859-63; succ. father as 4th Marquis of Lansdowne 31 Jan 1863; KG 10 Oct 1864; DL Wiltshire 1840; m. 1st, 18 Aug 1840 Lady Georgiana Herbert, fifth dau. of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke; m. 2nd, 1 Nov 1843 Hon. Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault (Baroness Nairne), eldest dau. of Auguste Charles Joseph Flahaut de la Billarderie, Comte de Flahault, French Ambassador in Vienna and London; d. 5 Jul 1866. DNB.