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Swarkestone Old Hall, Image ©copyright National Trust collections.

Calke Abbey, 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

Possibly Henry Harpur, 1st Baronet of Calke Abbey. Image ©copyright National Trust collections.

Henry Harpur was born in 1579, the third son of Sir John Harpur and his wife Isabella Pierpont, at Swarkestone Hall. Henry was