[Illustration] Descended from Robert Bastard, who held several
manors in this county in the reign of William I. For several
generations Efford, in the parish of Egg-Buckland, was the seat of
this family, but in the early part of the seventeenth century the
hereditary estates were sold, and they were of Wolston and Garston,
in West Allington. About the beginning of the eighteenth century
Kitley, the present seat, was inherited from the heiress of
Pollexfen.
In 1779, William Bastard, Esq., the representative of this family,
was gazetted a Baronet: the honour, which was declined by Mr.
Bastard, was intended as an acknowledgment of his services in
raising men to defend Plymouth in 1779.
See Lysons, cxxxi, and 577.
ARMS.--_Or, a chevron azure_.
Present Representative, Baldwin John Pollexfen Bastard, Esq.