Who lived at Calke Abbey?
Who lived at Calke Abbey? Were they Harpurs, Crewes, or Harpur-Crewes? The truth is, they all did. Over almost 300 years, from 1622
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Baronets
There were ten Harpur-Crewe baronets, spanning almost 300 years of Calke Abbey history.
The Fencible Cavalry
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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Calke Abbey, a Tale of Ten Baronets
Just like many large houses in England, one family governed the lives of the residents in that house, and often that of the
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Henry Harpur, First Baronet of Calke Abbey
Henry Harpur was born in 1579, the third son of Sir John Harpur and his wife Isabella Pierpont, at Swarkestone Hall. Henry was
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Sir John Harpur, the 2nd Baronet
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, 3rd Baronet
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 Baronet
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 Baronet
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 Baronet
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
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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