Packington Hall (Staffordshire)

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Packington Hall, Staffordshire, home of the Levett family. Photo, around 1900.

Packington Hall is a country house 2 miles from Lichfield in the English county of Staffordshire . The house, designed by architect James Wyatt in the 18th century, was originally built for the Babington family . Then many generations of the Levett family lived there. The Levetts had connections with Whittington and nearby Hopwas for many years .

history

Packington Hall was believed to have been commissioned by Zachary Babington , whose daughter, Mary Babington , married a Lichfield town clerk, Theophilus Levett . Theophilus Levett bequeathed the house to successive descendants, including MPs John Levett , Reverend Thomas Levett , Vicar of Whittington, and Robert Thomas Kennedy Levett , Justice of the Peace.

The Levett family, many of whom also resided at Wychnor Hall , produced vicars, MPs, barristers, and soldiers. Levetts of Wychnor Hall and Packington Hall also served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire . The family was related to the Levett of Milford Hall and with the family Floyer of hints Hall , the Gresleys from Drakelow , the Arkwright , the Disbrowes , the Wilmot-Sitwell , the Prinseps , the Repingtons , the Parkyns , the Kennedys of Culzean Castle and other. The various Levett Byways in Lichfield are named after the family.

The last member of the Levett family to reside at Packington Hall was Reverend Thomas Prinsep Levett , son of Col. Robert Thomas Kennedy Levett , a graduate of Clare College , Cambridge and a long-time member of the clergy in Richmond, North Yorkshire and Selby Abbey . The Reverend died in Frenchgate, Richmond, in 1938. The Reverend's brother, Robert Kennedy Levett , studied at Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) and then chose a career in church administration. Another brother, George Arthur Monro Levett , went to Christ's College (Cambridge) after attending Clifton College and became an estate manager in Kent .

Packington Hall was then sold to the Bowden cable manufacturer CTP Gills Ltd , which manufactures parts for the automotive industry. The factory was housed in the country house in the 1940s when the factory building in Birmingham was bombed out. CTP Gills was sold to Suprajit , an Indian engineering company, in 2006. In 2007, Gills Cables Ltd left the property and moved to a smaller factory in Tamworth .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Packington . January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  2. ^ William White: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire and the City and County . Independent Office, Sheffield 1834. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  3. ^ Zachary Babington, will of Zachary Babington . Whittington History Society, wdhs.org. ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 23, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdhs.org.uk
  4. ^ John Burke: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry . Volume I. Henry Colburn, London 1847. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ Alred Williams: Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire . Walter Henry Mallett & F. Brown, 1899. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  6. ^ Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal . Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval Staff, reissued by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  7. ^ John Burke, John Bernard Burke: The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales, with Their Descendants . Volume II. London 1851 . Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  8. ^ Charles Ferrers Palmer: History of the Town and Castle of Tamworth . Jonathan Thompson, Tamworth 1845 . Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  9. ^ Robert Bigsby: Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby. Woodfall and Kinder, London 1854 ( books.google.com ).
  10. ↑ James Paterson: History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. Volume II. James Stillie, Edinburgh 1864 ( books.google.com ).
  11. ^ Edmund Lodge: The Peerage of the British Empire. Saunders and Otley, London 1855 ( books.google.com ).
  12. ^ Levett, Thomas Prinsep . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume  4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 157 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  13. ^ Levett, Robert Kennedy . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume  4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 157 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  14. ↑ Levett, George Arthur Monro . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume  4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 156 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  15. ↑ Apps - Access My Library - Gale . Access My Library. Retrieved January 23, 2017.

Web links

literature

  • Jenny Uglow: The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2002. Entry: John Levett, MP .

Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 15.2 "  N , 1 ° 45 ′ 38.9"  W.