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Sir Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles, 3rd Baronet (died 26 January 1762), formerly Eyles, was a British landowner. He was the only son and heir of
Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet (1683 – 11 March 1745) of Gidea Hall in Essex, was a British financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1734. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1726. He served as a Director of the East India ...
, by his wife Mary Haskins Stiles. Under the will of his maternal uncle, Benjamin Haskins Styles, of Moor Park,
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,
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, who died unmarried on 4 April 1739, he assumed the additional name of Stiles after that of Eyles. Cokayne, George Edward (1906)
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He was elected a
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in 1742, and succeeded to the family baronetcy on 11 March 1745. A few months later, in October 1745, he sold the
Gidea Hall Gidea Hall was a manor house in Gidea Park, the historic parish and Royal liberty of Royal Liberty of Havering, Havering-atte-Bower, whose former area today is part of the north-eastern extremity of Greater London. The first record of Gidea Hall ...
estate he had inherited. He was a Commissioner for Victualling, 26 January 1762. He married, probably about 1735, Sibella Egerton (baptised 1 December 1711 at
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), daughter of the Rev. Philip Egerton, D.D., Rector of Astbury, by Frances, daughter of John Offley. He died at
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on 26 January 1762, and was succeeded by his son John Haskins Eyles-Stiles. His wife died shortly afterward, before 23 April 1763, when the probate of her estate was granted to her son. Sir John Haskins Eyles-Stiles, 4th Baronet, was born 16 April 1741, and died unmarried on 1 November 1768 aged 27. He was buried 4 days later at
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. The baronetcy became extinct. His only surviving sister, Mary, born on 16 January 1745, married her cousin Philip Egerton of
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, in or before 1766. Her husband died in 1786, aged 54, and she died in December 1821. She was the mother of
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