Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet

Sir William Pierce Ashe à Court, 1st Baronet (c. 1747 – 22 July 1817) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.

à Court was the son of General William Ashe-à Court and Anne Vernon. He represented Heytesbury in the House of Commons from 1781 to 1790 and again from 1806 to 1807. In 1795 he was created a Baronet, of Heytesbury in the County of Wiltshire. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Wiltshire Militia in 1797 and High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1812.

Laetitia à Court, née Wyndham (George Romney)

à Court married, firstly, Catherine Bradford, daughter of John Bradford, in 1769. After her death in 1776 he married, secondly, Laetitia Wyndham, daughter of Henry Wyndham and brother of Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, in 1777. He died in July 1817 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son from his second marriage, William, who became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Heytesbury in 1828. Lady à Court died in 1821.

His granddaughter Elizabeth Ash à Court-Repington (d. 1911), the only daughter of General Charles Ashe à Court-Repington and niece of William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury, married in 1846 the Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert and had seven children, including the 13th and 14th Earls of Pembroke & Montgomery.

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    Parliament of Great Britain
    Preceded by
    William Ashe-à Court
    William Eden
    Member of Parliament for Heytesbury
    1781–1790
    With: William Eden
    Succeeded by
    Lord Auckland
    Michael Angelo Taylor
    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Viscount of Kirkwall
    Charles Moore
    Member of Parliament for Heytesbury
    1806–1807
    With: Charles Abbot
    Succeeded by
    Charles Moore
    Michael Symes
    Baronetage of Great Britain
    New creation Baronet
    (of Heytesbury)
    1795–1817
    Succeeded by
    William à Court
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