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'''Milford Hall''' is a privately owned 18th century country mansion house at [[Milford, Staffordshire|Milford]], near [[Stafford]]. It is the home of the [[Levett]] Haszard family and is a [[Grade II listed building]].
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'''Karkigaun''' is a [[Village Development Committee (Nepal)|Village Development Committee]] in [[Jajarkot District]] in the [[Bheri Zone]] of mid-western [[Nepal]]. At the time of the [[1991 Nepal census]] it had a population of 3955 residing in 705 individual households.<ref>{{citation| url=http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1|title=Nepal Census 2001|magazine=Nepal's Village Development Committees|publisher=[[Digital Himalaya]]|accessdate={{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTDAY}} {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}} }}.</ref>


The estate passed to the [[Levett]] family in 1749 when Reverend Richard [[Levett]], son of the Rector of [[Blithfield]], Staffordshire, married Lucy Byrd, heiress of Milford and a descendant of the Byrd family of [[Cheshire]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=hlYN_LmEu8YC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=visitation+of+cheshire+byrd&source=web&ots=CukOE-WaMf&sig=JREi5fe9zvvvZDr5XHnFNYksblU&hl=en#PPA24,M1 Bird of Cheshire, The Visitation of Cheshire, in the Year 1580, Robert Glover, William Flower, William Fellows, ed. by John Paul Rylands, London, 1882]</ref><ref>The Bird family of Clopton and Brocton, Cheshire, were the ancestors of Colonel [[William Byrd I]] of Virginia. The son of a London goldsmith with roots in Cheshire, the first William Byrd lived at Brocton, Cheshire, before leaving England for Virginia in 1676.</ref> (The Levett family came from Sussex, and the Staffordshire Levetts retain ownership of the papers of Sussex native William [[Levett]], Esq., who was groom of the bedchamber to [[King Charles I]], accompanying the King to his imprisonment in [[Carisbrooke Castle]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=3ycIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA426&dq=%22william+levett%22+chamber+king+charles&ei=pq7MSIecKoSasg The Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England, Great Britain Parliament, London, 1763]</ref> and ultimately to his execution..<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=kuEDAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA60&lpg=RA2-PA60&dq=levett+mildmay+&source=web&ots=qhGhcLhOie&sig=Schx1E0yHZPeFtrT5gsabFLYwQ0&hl=en#PRA2-PA60,M1 William Levett, Hampton Court, or the Prophecy Fulfilled, 1844]</ref>)

Also at Milford Hall is a replica of an ancient bronze seal found in the 1800's near [[Eastbourne]] (now in the collection of the [[Lewes Castle]] Museum) bearing the [[coat-of-arms]] of John Livet.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=L0oJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=livet+seal+firle+bronze&source=web&ots=nOz1aGG8Mf&sig=8qaOWr-XFDDbmy3ce1Q4TdQOVE4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result The Museum of Lewes Castle, Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Sussex Archaeological Society, Vol. XVIII, George P. Bacon, Lewes, 1866]</ref> The signet is believed to have belonged to the first member of the family named [[lord of the manor]] of [[Firle]], East Sussex, in 1316.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=x-MrAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA139&lpg=RA1-PA139&dq=inquisitions+and+assessments+johannis+lyvett+ferles&source=web&ots=M9E2UJIDXM&sig=soR9BEfxfy5CS97-B4FXXTMOKqQ&hl=en Johannis Lyvett, Lord of Firle, 1316, Inquistions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids, Great Britain Public Record Office, 1908]</ref>

Milford Hall also contains an ancient [[illuminated]] [[pedigree]] with [[heraldic]] arms of the family traced from its roots in Sussex and [[Normandy]] in the [[eleventh century]].

This Sussex family produced Sir Richard [[Levett]], a powerful merchant and [[Lord Mayor of London]] and owner of [[Kew Palace]], who was the son of Reverend Richard [[Levett]] (brother of William, [[courtier]] to King Charles) of [[Ashwell, Rutland]], and Dr. William [[Levett]], [[Principal]], of [[Magdalen Hall]], [[Oxford]], and [[Dean]] of [[Bristol]]. The family is of [[Anglo-Norman]] descent and derives its name from the village of Livet (now [[Jonquerets-de-Livet]]) in Normandy.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45496 Levett Tomb and Monument, Saint Anne's Church, Kew, British History Online]</ref>

[[Image:Firle 025.JPG|thumb|Firle Church, Sussex, early home of Levett family]]

[[Levett]] replaced the existing house with a new mansion in the [[Georgian style]]. The main east fronting block had three storeys and four bays flanked by two double storey two bayed wings and with a five bay Orangery attached to the south.The central doorway carried [[pediment]] and [[Ionic order|Ionic]] [[pilaster]]s.

The house was much extended and altered in 1817 by his son, also Richard [[Levett]], when the pilasters and pediment were removed and the main entrance was moved to the west front.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53393 A History of the County of Stafford, Baswich, L. Margaret Midgely (editor), 1959, Victoria County History, British History Online]</ref>

The English 1881 census records show the Levett family and fourteen servants in residence. On the death of Captain William Swynnerton Byrd [[Levett]] in 1929 the estate passed to his daughter Dyonese Haszard<ref>Dyonese Levett Haszard was a scrupulous amateur historian who contributed to the Victoria County histories of Staffordshire. She also authored a book about the Levett family, which was honest about family foibles as well as accomplishments. One Levett family home, she noted, was known for its 'gloomy' atmosphere. In another the dining room table was equipped with a net underneath with which to catch the copious bottles consumed. Alderman Richard Levett of London (1728), son of the Lord Mayor, was a wastrel, according to Haszard, who squandered the enormous estate left him by his father.</ref>, the wife of Colonel Gerald Haszard, [[Royal Marines]].<ref>[http://www.berkswich.org.uk/Monuments/stthosmem.html wall tablet to Col. Gerald Haszard, St. Georges Chapel, St. Thomas' Church, Walton, Staffordshire]</ref>

The [[Levett]] Haszard family retains ownership of Milford Hall. (Dyonese Haszard's only brother, Lieut. Richard Byrd [[Levett]] of the 60th Rifles, [[King's Royal Rifle Corps]], was killed in France in the First World War in 1917.)<ref>[http://www.berkswich.org.uk/ST%20History.htm Memorial to Lieut. Richard Byrd Levett, St. Thomas Church, Berkswich]</ref><ref>[http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/genealogyjunction/Eton/Eton%20School%20Roll%20of%20Honour1.html Second Lieutenant Richard William Byrd Levett, Eton School Rolls of Honour, Roll of Honour for the Men of the Kings Royal Rifle Corp killed in the Great War, Wakefield Family History Society]</ref>

The mother of Lieut. Levett and Dyonese Levett Haszard was Maud Sophia Levett, wife of William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, and herself a Levett -- daughter of Major. Edward Levett ([[10th Royal Hussars]]) of Rowley, Derbyshire, a descendant of the Levetts of [[Wychnor Hall]] (or Wychnor Park), Staffordshire, and his wife Caroline Georgiana, daughter of Rev. [[Charles Thomas Longley]], Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=uOHHuwI8tD4C&pg=PA454&lpg=PA454&dq=levett+ruvigny+milford&source=web&ots=v2gbLC7X6H&sig=FGZ3ZmfrY9os73g5pv1DaajBCy0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Mortimer-Percy Volume, Marquis of Ruvigny, reprinted by Heritage Books, 2001]</ref> (Major Levett's second wife was Susan Alice Arkwright, a descendant of Sir [[Richard Arkwright]].)<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=btYKAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA17&lpg=RA1-PA17&dq=%22john+levett%22+archbishop+york&source=web&ots=-oi2gyVDHP&sig=6KI_5bARoo92EvffTmcV8A0T_aY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result Visitation of England and Wales, Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, College of Arms, Vol. 7, Privately Printed, 1899]</ref>

Descended from Levetts on both sides, Maud Levett was a writer on religious and spiritual topics, publishing several books as well as a memoir about her son Lieut. Levett, an [[Eton]] graduate, who was wounded twice before being killed in France in World War I. (An earlier Levett living at Milford Hall, the unmarried Frances M. Levett, also wrote several books, including "Gentle Influence: or the Cousin's Visit," which were published in London under her first initials.)

Col. Gerald Fenwick Haszard served as [[High Sheriff of Staffordshire]] in 1952 and Richard Byrd [[Levett]] Haszard is nominated for that position in 2009.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article2878945.ece The Times of London, Nov. 16, 2007]</ref> (The [[Levett]] family represented Staffordshire in Parliament in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.)

The Levetts of Milford Hall have long worshipped at nearby St.Thomas' Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, built in 1842 as a [[chapel of ease]] to the parish church. There are several monuments in the church to the Levett family.<ref>[http://www.berkswich.org.uk/Monuments/stthosmem.html St. Thomas' Church, Walton, Wall Plaques and Tablets, www.berkswich.org.uk]</ref><ref>[http://www.berkswich.org.uk/ST%20History.htm The Parish of Berkswich, the History of St. Thomas Church, www.berkswich.org.uk]</ref> St. Thomas's also contains unusual blue [[Minton|Minton Ltd]] tiles with the Levett initials in buff lettering.<ref>[http://www.tilesoc.org.uk/pdf/minstaff.pdf Minton Tiles in the Churches of Staffordshire, Lynn Pearson, Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society, www.tilesoc.org.uk]</ref>

There are also memorials to the family in St. Augustine Church in nearby [[Rugeley]], and at the church at Holy Trinity Church in [[Berkswich, Staffordshire]], where the Levett and [[Chetwynd Baronets|Chetwynd]] famiies had private pews.<ref>[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1457 Chetwynd and Levett family pews, Holy Trinity Church, Baswich, Staffordshire Past Track, staffspasttrack.org.uk]</ref><ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53393 Baswich or Berkswich, The Hundred of Cuttlestone, A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5, Victoria County History, L. Margaret Midgley, 1959, British History Online, www.british-history.ac.uk]</ref>

Nearby is [[Shugborough Hall]], the ancestral estate of the Anson family, the Earls of Lichfield. The [[Levett]] family of Milford is related to the Ansons, and the [[Levett]] Haszard family sit on the board of [[Shugborough Hall]], which is a couple of miles from Milford Hall.<ref>The Ansons and the Levetts also married into some of the same families, including that of the Lords Byron of [[Newstead Abbey]].</ref>

The Levetts also intermarried with the [[Bagot]] family from nearby [[Pype Hayes Hall]], a branch of the Bagots of Bagot's Bromley, Staffordshire, and [[Blithfield Hall]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA501&dq=levett+bagot+pype+hall&ei=nKneSI6IFpCKtAPrr7SFAg A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, John Burke Esq., Vol. I, Henry Colburn, London, 1835]</ref>

Also in Staffordshire, another distant branch of the Sussex [[Levett]] family owned Packington Hall and [[Wychnor Hall]], two country mansion houses. Ultimately, these two branches of the [[Levett]] family were reunited in marriage<ref>The marriage of Maud Sophia Levett, descendant of the Wychnor Hall Levetts, and William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, scion of the Milford Hall Levetts.</ref>, so that the current owners of Milford Hall are descended from both branches of the family.

The Levetts of Milford Hall have also intermarried into other landowning families. The Levett-Scrivener family, for instance, live near [[Yoxford, Suffolk]], where they have owned for centuries the ruins of Sibton Abbey, the only Cistercian abbey in [[East Anglia]].<ref>[http://www.diamm.ac.uk/jsp/Source.jsp?navToggle=1&sourceKey=584 Sibton Abbey Account Book, Saxmundham, private collection of J. E. Levett-Scrivener, Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, diamm.ac.uk]</ref><ref>The Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, were granted Sibton Abbey by the Crown at the dissolution of the monasteries. Sibton Abbey and Sibton Manor were subsequently sold in 1610 to Ralph Scrivener, barrister of Ipswich. The Abbey is in ruins, but the refectory and the south wall of the nave survive, although the ruins are heavily overgrown.[http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/sibton.php]</ref>

Not all Levetts retained the family name. Lieut-Col Richard W.B. Mirehouse (1849-1914), [[High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire]], Wales, [[1886]], and Lieutentant Colonel of [[North Staffordshire Regiment|4th Batt. North Staffs Regiment]] was born Richard W.B. Levett of Milford Hall, but changed his name to that of his mother's family, Mirehouse.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=JfgBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=levett+angle+pembroke&source=web&ots=F1DqeYWIPi&sig=edaRufGBKkQ3oxhu4ryyPqTlUYk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result Richard Mirehouse, formerly Levett, The Eton Register, Part III, Old Etonian Association, Spottiswoode & Co., Eton, 1906]</ref>

Milford Hall is private and the mansion and grounds are not open to the public.


==References==
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* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53393 ''A History of the County of Stafford, Volume 5''' (1959) pp1-11 from British History Online]


==External links==
==External links==
* ''Burkes Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1'' (1847) p 724
*[http://www.un.org.np/maps/district-maps/mid-western/Jajarkot.pdf UN map of the municipalities of Jajarkot District]
* [http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/coatarms/levett.htm ''YeOldSussexPages.com History of Sussex]

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA724&lpg=PA724&dq=%22lieutenant+richard+byrd+levett%22&source=web&ots=qCusj0789J&sig=rU15trh9KaDeC7iY4WEL39Yuups&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result Levett of Milford Hall, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain,'' Bernard Burke, 1863]
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* [http://www.hrp.org.uk/KewPalace/sightsandstories/buildinghistory/arichmerchantinlove.aspx ''Kew Palace official site'']
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=2J5rkqos7wAC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=livet+the+origins+of+some+%22anglo+norman%22+families&source=web&ots=dBzVpb4qAc&sig=itKzJUsI_xM4vKR1norEhKf7NXU ''The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis Christopher Loyd, 1951'']
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA503&lpg=PA503&dq=legge+levett&source=web&ots=YyQNzcBOZt&sig=e4J3y_94MWNbdigVhEfBHdLwudE#PPA501,M1 ''Rev. Richard Levett of Milford Hall'']
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=nfUGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA64-IA2&lpg=RA1-PA64-IA2&dq=%22jean+de+livet%22+packington&source=web&ots=haVhukD2JT&sig=peKu_IK8kUpg-NrPVaGo-VlbtX4 ''Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Alfred Williams, 1899" Packington Hall]
*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37133 Parliament Fine of William Levett, Gent., House of Lords Journal, 1647, British History Online]


==Further reading==
*''The Levetts of Staffordshire'', Dyonese Levett Haszard, privately printed


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Milford Hall is a privately owned 18th century country mansion house at Milford, near Stafford. It is the home of the Levett Haszard family and is a Grade II listed building.

The estate passed to the Levett family in 1749 when Reverend Richard Levett, son of the Rector of Blithfield, Staffordshire, married Lucy Byrd, heiress of Milford and a descendant of the Byrd family of Cheshire.[1][2] (The Levett family came from Sussex, and the Staffordshire Levetts retain ownership of the papers of Sussex native William Levett, Esq., who was groom of the bedchamber to King Charles I, accompanying the King to his imprisonment in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight[3] and ultimately to his execution..[4])

Also at Milford Hall is a replica of an ancient bronze seal found in the 1800's near Eastbourne (now in the collection of the Lewes Castle Museum) bearing the coat-of-arms of John Livet.[5] The signet is believed to have belonged to the first member of the family named lord of the manor of Firle, East Sussex, in 1316.[6]

Milford Hall also contains an ancient illuminated pedigree with heraldic arms of the family traced from its roots in Sussex and Normandy in the eleventh century.

This Sussex family produced Sir Richard Levett, a powerful merchant and Lord Mayor of London and owner of Kew Palace, who was the son of Reverend Richard Levett (brother of William, courtier to King Charles) of Ashwell, Rutland, and Dr. William Levett, Principal, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Dean of Bristol. The family is of Anglo-Norman descent and derives its name from the village of Livet (now Jonquerets-de-Livet) in Normandy.[7]

Firle Church, Sussex, early home of Levett family

Levett replaced the existing house with a new mansion in the Georgian style. The main east fronting block had three storeys and four bays flanked by two double storey two bayed wings and with a five bay Orangery attached to the south.The central doorway carried pediment and Ionic pilasters.

The house was much extended and altered in 1817 by his son, also Richard Levett, when the pilasters and pediment were removed and the main entrance was moved to the west front.[8]

The English 1881 census records show the Levett family and fourteen servants in residence. On the death of Captain William Swynnerton Byrd Levett in 1929 the estate passed to his daughter Dyonese Haszard[9], the wife of Colonel Gerald Haszard, Royal Marines.[10]

The Levett Haszard family retains ownership of Milford Hall. (Dyonese Haszard's only brother, Lieut. Richard Byrd Levett of the 60th Rifles, King's Royal Rifle Corps, was killed in France in the First World War in 1917.)[11][12]

The mother of Lieut. Levett and Dyonese Levett Haszard was Maud Sophia Levett, wife of William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, and herself a Levett -- daughter of Major. Edward Levett (10th Royal Hussars) of Rowley, Derbyshire, a descendant of the Levetts of Wychnor Hall (or Wychnor Park), Staffordshire, and his wife Caroline Georgiana, daughter of Rev. Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury.[13] (Major Levett's second wife was Susan Alice Arkwright, a descendant of Sir Richard Arkwright.)[14]

Descended from Levetts on both sides, Maud Levett was a writer on religious and spiritual topics, publishing several books as well as a memoir about her son Lieut. Levett, an Eton graduate, who was wounded twice before being killed in France in World War I. (An earlier Levett living at Milford Hall, the unmarried Frances M. Levett, also wrote several books, including "Gentle Influence: or the Cousin's Visit," which were published in London under her first initials.)

Col. Gerald Fenwick Haszard served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1952 and Richard Byrd Levett Haszard is nominated for that position in 2009.[15] (The Levett family represented Staffordshire in Parliament in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.)

The Levetts of Milford Hall have long worshipped at nearby St.Thomas' Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, built in 1842 as a chapel of ease to the parish church. There are several monuments in the church to the Levett family.[16][17] St. Thomas's also contains unusual blue Minton Ltd tiles with the Levett initials in buff lettering.[18]

There are also memorials to the family in St. Augustine Church in nearby Rugeley, and at the church at Holy Trinity Church in Berkswich, Staffordshire, where the Levett and Chetwynd famiies had private pews.[19][20]

Nearby is Shugborough Hall, the ancestral estate of the Anson family, the Earls of Lichfield. The Levett family of Milford is related to the Ansons, and the Levett Haszard family sit on the board of Shugborough Hall, which is a couple of miles from Milford Hall.[21]

The Levetts also intermarried with the Bagot family from nearby Pype Hayes Hall, a branch of the Bagots of Bagot's Bromley, Staffordshire, and Blithfield Hall.[22]

Also in Staffordshire, another distant branch of the Sussex Levett family owned Packington Hall and Wychnor Hall, two country mansion houses. Ultimately, these two branches of the Levett family were reunited in marriage[23], so that the current owners of Milford Hall are descended from both branches of the family.

The Levetts of Milford Hall have also intermarried into other landowning families. The Levett-Scrivener family, for instance, live near Yoxford, Suffolk, where they have owned for centuries the ruins of Sibton Abbey, the only Cistercian abbey in East Anglia.[24][25]

Not all Levetts retained the family name. Lieut-Col Richard W.B. Mirehouse (1849-1914), High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1886, and Lieutentant Colonel of 4th Batt. North Staffs Regiment was born Richard W.B. Levett of Milford Hall, but changed his name to that of his mother's family, Mirehouse.[26]


Milford Hall is private and the mansion and grounds are not open to the public.

References

  1. ^ Bird of Cheshire, The Visitation of Cheshire, in the Year 1580, Robert Glover, William Flower, William Fellows, ed. by John Paul Rylands, London, 1882
  2. ^ The Bird family of Clopton and Brocton, Cheshire, were the ancestors of Colonel William Byrd I of Virginia. The son of a London goldsmith with roots in Cheshire, the first William Byrd lived at Brocton, Cheshire, before leaving England for Virginia in 1676.
  3. ^ The Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England, Great Britain Parliament, London, 1763
  4. ^ William Levett, Hampton Court, or the Prophecy Fulfilled, 1844
  5. ^ The Museum of Lewes Castle, Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Sussex Archaeological Society, Vol. XVIII, George P. Bacon, Lewes, 1866
  6. ^ Johannis Lyvett, Lord of Firle, 1316, Inquistions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids, Great Britain Public Record Office, 1908
  7. ^ Levett Tomb and Monument, Saint Anne's Church, Kew, British History Online
  8. ^ A History of the County of Stafford, Baswich, L. Margaret Midgely (editor), 1959, Victoria County History, British History Online
  9. ^ Dyonese Levett Haszard was a scrupulous amateur historian who contributed to the Victoria County histories of Staffordshire. She also authored a book about the Levett family, which was honest about family foibles as well as accomplishments. One Levett family home, she noted, was known for its 'gloomy' atmosphere. In another the dining room table was equipped with a net underneath with which to catch the copious bottles consumed. Alderman Richard Levett of London (1728), son of the Lord Mayor, was a wastrel, according to Haszard, who squandered the enormous estate left him by his father.
  10. ^ wall tablet to Col. Gerald Haszard, St. Georges Chapel, St. Thomas' Church, Walton, Staffordshire
  11. ^ Memorial to Lieut. Richard Byrd Levett, St. Thomas Church, Berkswich
  12. ^ Second Lieutenant Richard William Byrd Levett, Eton School Rolls of Honour, Roll of Honour for the Men of the Kings Royal Rifle Corp killed in the Great War, Wakefield Family History Society
  13. ^ The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Mortimer-Percy Volume, Marquis of Ruvigny, reprinted by Heritage Books, 2001
  14. ^ Visitation of England and Wales, Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, College of Arms, Vol. 7, Privately Printed, 1899
  15. ^ The Times of London, Nov. 16, 2007
  16. ^ St. Thomas' Church, Walton, Wall Plaques and Tablets, www.berkswich.org.uk
  17. ^ The Parish of Berkswich, the History of St. Thomas Church, www.berkswich.org.uk
  18. ^ Minton Tiles in the Churches of Staffordshire, Lynn Pearson, Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society, www.tilesoc.org.uk
  19. ^ Chetwynd and Levett family pews, Holy Trinity Church, Baswich, Staffordshire Past Track, staffspasttrack.org.uk
  20. ^ Baswich or Berkswich, The Hundred of Cuttlestone, A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5, Victoria County History, L. Margaret Midgley, 1959, British History Online, www.british-history.ac.uk
  21. ^ The Ansons and the Levetts also married into some of the same families, including that of the Lords Byron of Newstead Abbey.
  22. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, John Burke Esq., Vol. I, Henry Colburn, London, 1835
  23. ^ The marriage of Maud Sophia Levett, descendant of the Wychnor Hall Levetts, and William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, scion of the Milford Hall Levetts.
  24. ^ Sibton Abbey Account Book, Saxmundham, private collection of J. E. Levett-Scrivener, Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, diamm.ac.uk
  25. ^ The Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, were granted Sibton Abbey by the Crown at the dissolution of the monasteries. Sibton Abbey and Sibton Manor were subsequently sold in 1610 to Ralph Scrivener, barrister of Ipswich. The Abbey is in ruins, but the refectory and the south wall of the nave survive, although the ruins are heavily overgrown.[1]
  26. ^ Richard Mirehouse, formerly Levett, The Eton Register, Part III, Old Etonian Association, Spottiswoode & Co., Eton, 1906

External links

Further reading

  • The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese Levett Haszard, privately printed
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