1st Baronet, Sir Henry Piers

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Sir Henry Piers 1st Baronet (1629–1691), of Tristernagh Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland was an Anglo-Irish landowner, soldier, Member of Parliament, Sheriff of Counties Longford and Westmeath, Sheriff of St Johnstown, and an antiquarian.

Biography Piers was the son of Sir William Piers and Martha, daughter of Sir James Ware.[1] He was the grandson of Henry Piers and great-grandson of the English naval officer William Piers, who had been granted Tristernagh Abbey by Elizabeth I of England as a reward for military and other services in Ireland.

Piers served as a military officer in the 1640s, commanding a company in Colonel Castle's Regiment.[2] He held the office of Sheriff of Counties Longford and Westmeath in 1657–1658.[1] He was dubbed a knight by Henry Cromwell at Dublin Castle on 30 November 1658 (an honour that passed into oblivion with the Restoration in May 1660).[3] He was Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Counties Longford and Westmeath in the Third Protectorate Parliament of 1659.[1]

After the Restoration he was created a baronet on 18 February 1661.[4] He was Sheriff of St Johnstown, County Longford between 1661 and 1666, and he held the office of High Sheriff of Westmeath in 1663.[1]

Family Around 1653 Piers married Mary Jones, daughter of Dr. Henry Jones and Jane Cullum. He was succeeded as baronet by his son and heir William. They also had seven other sons and six daughters.[1] His descendants included Sir John Piers.

References Lundy, Darryl (8 March 2013), Sir Henry Piers, 1st Bt.1, p. 549583 §549583, retrieved December 2013 Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) cites: Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 3 (107th, 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), p. 3133 Shaw, William Arthur (1906), The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, 2, London: Sherratt and Hughes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_baronets Piers baronets, of Tristernagh Abbey (1661) Sir Henry Piers, 1st Baronet (c. 1628–1691) Sir William Piers, 2nd Baronet (c. 1653–1693) Sir Henry Piers, 3rd Baronet (1678–1733) Sir John Piers, 4th Baronet (died 1747) Sir Pigott William Piers, 5th Baronet (c. 1742–1798) Sir John Bennett Piers, 6th Baronet (c. 1775–1845 ) Sir Henry Samuel Piers, 7th Baronet (1811–1850) Sir Eustace Fitz-Maurice Piers, 8th Baronet (1840–1913) Sir Charles Pigott Piers, 9th Baronet (1870–1945) Sir Charles Robert Fitzmaurice Piers, 10th Baronet (1903–1996) Sir James Desmond Piers, 11th Baronet (born 1947)