The Bastard baronetcy, of Kitley in the County of Devon, was a title intended to be created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in September 1779 for William Bastard (1727–1782) in recognition of his actions in saving the arsenal of Plymouth from a French fleet in August of that year. The title was gazetted but Bastard declined to assume it and it did not ever pass the Great Seal.

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Family tree
William Bastard 1727–1782Anne Worsley
John Pollexfen Bastard
1756–1816
Edmund Bastard
1758–1816
Jane Pownoll
Edmund Pollexfen Bastard
1784–1838
John Bastard RN
1787–1835
Rev P P Bastard
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  • Bastard of Kitley, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, second edition, John Russell Smith, London 1844, page 44,