The Pearce Baronetcy, of Cardell in the County of Renfrew

Renfrewshire (historic)

Renfrewshire or the County of Renfrew is a registration county, the Lieutenancy area of the Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, and one of the counties of Scotland used for local government until 1975. Renfrewshire is located in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland, south of the River Clyde,...

, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on on 21 July 1887 for the shipbuilder and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 politician William Pearce

Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet

Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet was a British shipbuilder, under whose management the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde became the leading shipbuilding company in the world...

. His only son, the second Baronet, was also a businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was childless and the title became extinct on his death in 1907.

Pearce Baronets, of Cardell (1887)

• Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet was a British shipbuilder, under whose management the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde became the leading shipbuilding company in the world...
  
   (1833–1888)
• Sir William George Pearce, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William George Pearce, 2nd Baronet was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician in England....
  
  (1861–1907)