The de Bathe baronetcy of Knightstown, Cashel and Ladyrath in the County of Meath was created on 7 July 1801 for James de Bathe. It became extinct upon the death of the 6th baronet, in 1941.
de Bathe baronets of Knightstown, County Meath (1801)
General Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, 4th Baronet, a long-lived baronet who was present at Queen Victoria's Coronation and funeral in an official capacity. Over objection from her father William Clare, Charlotte Clare lived with de Bathe, for 13 years; they had nine children -- two after they married in 1870.
*Sir Hugo de Bathe, below
*Henry Percival de Bathe married 1885 Grace Fanny Denslow Hooper
*Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilian John de Bathe married 1907 Ada Mary Paget
*Mary de Bathe, who married Mervyn Henry Archdale, a relative of the Archdale baronets, and had issue; one son and four daughters. Their daughter Cicely Archdale married the 2nd Marquess of Zetland in 1907, and had one son and two daughters. Another daughter Mary Alice Archdale married the Third Baron Grimthorpe.
* Phyllis de Bathe, who married 1887 the First Lord Somerleyton ; their descendants including the present Third Lord Somerleyton, and the heir of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
*Patrick Wynne de Bathe ; father of the 6th and last Baronet. He married Violet Lindsay Wood in 1904, daughter of Arthur Nicholas Lindsay Wood, with whom he had one son. Having broken a bigamous wartime engagement to Muriel Perry on his discovery of her illegitimate children by Roger Ackerley, father also of the writer J. R. Ackerley, he secondly married on 26 July 1921 to Marjorie O'Brien, by whom he had one daughter.
** Sir Christopher Albert de Bathe, 6th Baronet, who succeeded his uncle as Baronet in 1940.
** Bridget de Bathe who married 1942 Captain Timothy John Gurney, and has issue, including Lucinda Marjorie Gurney, now wife of the 6th Baron Hothfield.
* Winifred de Bathe, called "Mouse" de Bathe by her descendant the Marquess of Bath; she married firstly Robert Fanning, or William Atmar Fanning, by whom 1 daughter Barbara Fanning, who married five times. Her first husband was the 4th Baron Vivian, whom she married 1903 and divorced 1907 after eloping with another man. Their issue were the 5thBaron Vivian and the novelist Daphne Fielding, who married firstly the 6th Marquess of Bath, and had issue 4 sons including the present Marquess, and 1 daughter, Caroline, late Duchess of Beaufort. She married secondly 5 July 1897 Harry Leslie Blundell McCalmont, MP for East Cambridge 1895 to 1902 and a very wealthy man, by whom no issue.
; his first marriage in 1899 was to Lillie Langtry as her second husband. They were married until her death in 1929. He secondly married on 12 May 1931 at Ajaccio, Corsica was to Deborah Warschowsky, daughter of Samuel Warschowsky, the former wife of Paul Henius. His nephew succeeded due to no issue:
Sir Christopher Albert de Bathe, 6th Baronet, a Pilot Officer, RAFVR; he married 1932 Edna Winifred Terrell; 1 daughter -- Charlotte Louise de Bathe, since 1967 Mrs Arthur Cyril Bryan.
