Robert Peers, a wine merchant from Bristol, settle in Alveston, Warwickshire, in 1540. Successive generations lived there until Lieut-Colonel Newsham Peers (see previous lot) inherited the estate from his father Thomas Peers in 1722. Newsham was fatally wounded at Dettingen in 1743 and the estates passed to his brother Philip, who was the Commander of an East Indiaman and died in Bombay in 1751; the estate devolved upon his brother Edmund.

Edmund Peers of Alveston (1687-1766) was a Captain in the Navy, and he was the brother of Newsham (see previous lot). His son, also called Newsham, married Elizabeth Gardiner. The estate at Alveston was sold to Henry Roberts of Stratford in 1810, and the church has a monument to the Peers family.