The Prescott baronetcy, of Theobalds Park in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 9 December 1794 for George William Prescott, son of George Prescott (c.1711 – 1790), MP, of Theobalds Park, and his wife Mary, daughter of Jacob Elton, a merchant and Mayor of Bristol, third son of Sir Abraham Elton, 1st Baronet.The New Baronetage of England, vol. II, W. Miller and E. Lloyd, 1804, p. 595 He had married in 1774 Susanna Long, daughter of Beeston Long (1710–1785) the elder of Carshalton Park, a West Indies merchant with Drake & Long, and father of Beeston Long the younger and the politician Charles Long.
The title became extinct on the death of the 7th Baronet in 1959.
Prescott baronets, of Theobald's Park (1794) Sir George William Prescott, 1st Baronet (1748–1801) Sir George Beeston Prescott, 2nd Baronet (1775–1840) Sir George William Prescott, 3rd Baronet (1800–1850) Sir George Rendlesham Prescott, 4th Baronet (1846–1894) Sir George Lionel Lawson Bagot Prescott, 5th Baronet (1875–1942) Sir Charles William Beeston Prescott, 6th Baronet (1877–1955) Sir William Villiers Leonard Prescott-Westcar, 7th Baronet (1882–1959), left no heir.
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