 The second baronet was a writer on wrestling, best known as the author of "The Inn-Play, or, Cornish-Hugg Wrestler", which was first published in 1713.On 3 October 1795 Thomas Parkyns Member of Parliament for Stockbridge and Leicester and son and heir of the third Baronet, was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Rancliffe, of Rancliffe.He predeceased his father and was succeeded in the barony by his son, the second Baron, who in 1806 also succeeded his grandfather as fourth Baronet.