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Author: Norman Monahan

Sir John Harpur, 2nd Baronet. From a Memorial portrait hanging in Calke Abbey. Courtesy the National Trust collections.
Baronets 

Sir John Harpur, the 2nd Baronet

Norman Monahan 11 April 202117 May 2022

Of the 2nd baronet, who was born in 1616, we know very little, apart from the fact that, after the specific bequests made

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Sir John Harpur, the 3rd. Baronet, from an image in the National Trust Collections.
Baronets 

Sir John Harpur, 3rd Baronet

Norman Monahan 3 May 202117 May 2022

John was born in 1645 and was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford. Like his father, we have little knowledge of where he went,

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Sir John Harpur, 4th Bt (1680-1741) from an image in the NT Collection
Baronets 

Sir John Harpur, 4th Baronet

Norman Monahan 17 May 202117 May 2022

Although, by 1701, the Harpurs of Calke had held the title of Baronet for 75 years, it was not until John – at

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Sir Henry Harpur, 5th bt. from an image in the NT Collection
Baronets 

Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet

Norman Monahan 17 June 202117 May 2022

Sir Henry Harpur, 5th baronet was born in 1708 and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He then went, as was the custom, –

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Sir Henry (Harry) Harpur, 6th bt. from an image in the NT Collection
Baronets 

Sir Henry ‘Harry’ Harpur, 6th Baronet

Norman Monahan 7 July 202117 May 2022

Born on the 6th. July 1739 – had he been born 50 years later, I think that he would have figured in one

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Sir Henry Harpur, 7th Baronet
Sir Henry Harpur, 7th Baronet, aged 21. From an image in the National Trust collection.
Baronets 

Sir Henry Harpur, 7th Baronet

Norman Monahan 29 August 202117 May 2022

In his private diaries, the then Headmaster of Repton School, The Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens, called Sir Henry Harpur, the 7th. Baronet, the

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Officer uniform of the Derbyshire Light Cavalry. From a portrait of R. Parsons, 1800. Roy Precious Antiques and Fine Art.
Baronets 

The Fencible Cavalry

Norman Monahan 16 September 202117 May 2022

The civil war was raging in France in the last decade of the 18th Century and the British Government feared invasion. In 1794,

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Blog 

What did you do in the lockdown, Grandad?

Norman Monahan 30 January 20219 August 2021

Norman Monahan’s work on the Ticknall water supply articles was going fine until it emerged that there were some important facts that needed

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Sir George Crewe, 8th baronet of Calke Abbey. From an image in the NT Collection.
Baronets 

Sir George Crewe, 8th baronet

Norman Monahan 26 December 202117 May 2022

Well, we’ve had John the builder, Henry the thinker. ‘Harry’ the racing enthusiast, Henry the ‘isolated’ and now we have George the ‘enigma’.

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Sir John Harpur-Crewe, 9th baronet of Calke Abbey. From an image in the NT Collection.
Baronets 

Sir John Harpur-Crewe, 9th Baronet

Norman Monahan 25 January 202217 May 2022

‘Farmer John’ was, I think, the affectionate epithet applied to Sir Jon Harpur Crewe, the 9th. Baronet of Calke Abbey. Nothing signified it

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Baronets 

Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th. Baronet

Norman Monahan 18 March 202217 May 2022

The fourth baronet left us the front elevation of the house, the fifth gave us the external stairs. The sixth, the Riding School

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Night soil collection
Night soil collection
Historical Society Local History Ticknall Waters 

Water supplies to Ticknall and Calke

Norman Monahan 2 January 202017 May 2022

Nowadays we take a clean, constant water supply for granted. Yet it is surprising how recently this came to be the case. Twenty

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Calke Abbey drive. Photo ©copyright Ticknall Life
Locality 

Calke Abbey and Park

Norman Monahan 18 September 202017 May 2022

Midway along Main Street in Ticknall is the understated entrance to Calke Abbey, one of the National Trust’s most popular properties.  A scenic

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Family History 

What’s in a Name?

Norman Monahan 26 March 202118 May 2022

Visitors to Calke Abbey are sometimes puzzled by the names that occur in the last few generations of the Harpur Crewe family; for

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Ticknall Methodist Chapel two-seater privy.
Ticknall Methodist Chapel two-seater privy on show at Sharps' Pottery Museum, Swadlincote.
Local History Ticknall Waters 

Paraffin City Services

Norman Monahan 24 January 20204 April 2021

We finished the last article warmly ensconced in the double privy in the Methodist church, which article was sent to Sharps Pottery Museum,

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