Halford Baronets - Halford Baronets, of Wistow, Co Leicester (18 December 1641; Extinct 1780)

Halford Baronets, of Wistow, Co Leicester (18 December 1641; Extinct 1780)

• Sir Richard Halford, 1st Baronet (c. 1580-1658), Sheriff of Leicestershire in the 19th year of James I's reign, created a baronet on 18 December 1641. He and his eldest son Andrew (who died 1657, a year before his father) were notable for their allegiance to Charles I. Sir Richard was succeeded by his grandson (son of his eldest son)
• Sir Thomas Halford, 2nd Baronet (died 1679); succeeded by his son
• Sir Thomas Halford, 3rd Baronet (c. 1663-3 May 1690) MP for Leicestershire 1689-1690. He died unmarried, and was succeeded by his next brother
• Sir William Halford, 4th Baronet (died 1695) who was succeeded by his next brother
• Sir Richard Halford, 5th Baronet (died 5 September 1727), great-grandfather maternally of Sir Henry Halford the physician and first baronet of the 1809 creation. He married Mary Cotton, dau of Rev. William Cotton of Broughton Asley, and had five sons and three daughters, including
  • Sir William Halford, 6th Baronet (1709–1768) and
  • Thomas Halford (died 1766), father of four sons (of whom the youngest Charles became the 7th and last Baronet), and
  • Elizabeth Halford (c. 1703-11 June 1772 aged 69) who married John (or William or Thomas) Smalley, an alderman of Leicester, and had with other issue, a second daughter:
    • Hester Smalley (c. 1740-d. 2 April 1791, aged 51) whose eldest surviving son was
      • Sir Henry Halford (below).

Sir Richard Halford, 5th Baronet, was succeeded by his eldest son

• Sir William Halford, 6th Baronet (1709–1768) who died unmarried, and was succeeded by his nephew (youngest son of the next brother Thomas Halford)
• Sir Charles Halford, 7th Baronet (1732-21 July 1780) the last baronet of the 1641 creation, son of Thomas Halford, second son of the 5th Baronet. His widow Sarah, Lady Denbigh (whom he married in 1769) continued to enjoy the property until her death 2 October 1814. Lady Halford remarried 1783 Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, but had no issue by either marriage. In 1814, the property finally passed to his first cousin once removed Sir Henry Fielding.