Milford Hall
Milford Hall is a privately owned 18th-century
Association with Levett family
The estate passed to the Levett family in 1749 when Reverend Richard Levett, son of the Rector of
Milford Hall contains an ancient
This Sussex family produced Sir
A 19th century daughter of the house, Frances M. Levett, wrote several books, including Gentle Influence: or the Cousin's Visit, which were published in London under her first initials.[10]
Architecture
Levett replaced the existing house with a new mansion in the
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.[11]
Family history
The
About this time, two cousins married. Captain William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, JP, was named in part for his Swynnerton ancestors of Swynnerton, and Butterton.[12] He was an 1873 graduate of Eton College.[13]
The woman was Maud Sophia, also born a Levett,
The couple had two children, a boy and a girl. Their son Lieut. Richard Byrd Levett, who attended Eton like his father before him, joined the 60th Rifles, King's Royal Rifle Corps, was twice wounded and was killed in France in the First World War.[17][18] He died in an assault on the town of Irles on the morning of 14 March 1917. His mother wrote a memoir of his life.
Their daughter Dyonese, who researched and wrote a family history,[19] married Colonel Gerald Haszard, OBE, Royal Marines.[20] who was nominated Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1950[21] On the death of her father in 1929, she inherited the estate.
Associated churches
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 at Berkswich. There are several monuments in the church to the family.[22][23] For example, after World War I, Lieutenant Levett's parents erected a marble effigy in his honor at St Thomas's.[24][25] His tomb displays the arms of Levett of Milford Hall for his father, William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, and the arms of Levett of Wychnor Park for his mother, Maud (Levett) Levett. St. Thomas's also contains unusual blue Minton Ltd tiles with the Levett initials in buff lettering.[26]
There are also memorials to the family in St. Augustine Church in nearby
Intermarriages
The Levetts of Milford Hall have intermarried into other landowning families. As described above, the current owners of Milford Hall are descended from two branches of the Levett family which united in the marriage of Maud Sophia Levett, descendant of the
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.[29]
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.[30]
The Levett-Scrivener family, for instance, live near
Not all Levetts retained the family name. Lieut-Col Richard W. B. Mirehouse (1849–1914), High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1886, and Lieutenant Colonel of 4th Batt. North Staffs Regiment, was born Richard W. B. Levett of Milford Hall. He changed his name to that of his mother's family.[33]
Currently
The Levett Haszard family retains ownership of Milford Hall. Milford Hall is private and the mansion and grounds are not open to the public. Col. Gerald Fenwick Haszard[34] served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1952, and Richard Byrd Levett Haszard currently served likewise in 2009.[35]
See also
Notes
- ^ Glover, Robert (27 September 1882). The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580. Harleian Society. p. 7 – via Internet Archive.
visitation of cheshire byrd.
- ^ The same Bird family of Clopton and Broxton, 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 Broxton, Cheshire, before leaving England for Virginia in 1676.
- ^ The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England;: From the Earliest Times, to the Restoration of King Charles II. Collected from the Records, ... J. and R. Tonson, and A. Millar, ... and W. Sandby. 27 September 1763. p. 426 – via Internet Archive.
william levett chamber king charles.
- ^ Court, Hampton (27 September 2018). "Hampton Court, or, The prophecy fulfilled" – via Google Books.
- ^ Lichfield.), Alfred Williams (of (27 September 1899). "Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire: A Series of Descriptive Articles". F. Brown – via Google Books.
- ^ Lower, Mark Antony; Chapman, Robert (27 September 1866). "Antiquities preserved in the Society's Museum at Lewes Castle". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 18. Sussex Archaeological Society.: 69 – via Internet Archive.
livet seal firle bronze.
- ^ Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids: Stafford to Worcester. H.M. Stationery Office. 1908. p. 139 – via Internet Archive.
inquisitions and assessments johannis lyvett ferles.
- ^ Hardy, William John; Robinson, F. E.; Baildon, William Paley (27 September 2018). "The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey, Kent and Sussex". F. E. Robinson and Company – via Google Books.
- ^ "British History Online - The core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ LEVETT, FRANCES M. (1852). GENTLE INFLUENCE; OR ; THE COUSIN'S VISIT. p. 32 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ "British History Online - The core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ "Staffordshire,Swynnerton - he was definitely in the wars !". 21 May 2009.
- ^ Gambier-Parry, Ernest (27 September 2018). "Annals of an Eton house, with some notes on the Evans family". London : J. Murray – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Staffordshire, Walton on the Hill". 20 May 2009.
- The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Mortimer-Percy Volume, Marquis of Ruvigny, reprinted by Heritage Books, 2001p. 454
- ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (27 September 1899). Visitation of England and Wales. Priv. printed. p. 17 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ Memorial to Lieut. Richard Byrd Levett, St. Thomas Church, Berkswich
- ^ "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".
- ^ Dyonese Levett Haszard was a scrupulous amateur historian who contributed to the Victoria County History 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.
- ^ wall tablet to Col. Gerald Haszard, St. Georges Chapel, St. Thomas' Church, Walton, Staffordshire
- ^ www.thegazette.co.uk. 17 November 1950 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39069/page/5740/data.pdf. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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(help) - ^ St. Thomas' Church, Walton, Wall Plaques and Tablets, www.berkswich.org.uk
- ^ The Parish of Berkswich, the History of St. Thomas Church, www.berkswich.org.uk
- ^ "Staffordshire, Walton on the Hill". 20 May 2009.
- ^ "So passed a brave soldier - Staffordshire, Walton on the Hill". 20 May 2009.
- ^ "Minton Tiles in the Churches of Staffordshire, Lynn Pearson, Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society, www.tilesoc.org.uk" (PDF).
- ^ Chetwynd and Levett family pews, Holy Trinity Church, Baswich, Staffordshire Past Track, staffspasttrack.org.uk Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "British History Online - The core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ The Ansons and the Levetts also married into some of the same families, including that of the Lords Byron of Newstead Abbey.
- ^ Burke, John (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Henry Colburn. p. 501 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ Sibton Abbey Account Book, Saxmundham, private collection of J. E. Levett-Scrivener, Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, diamm.ac.uk Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project". cistercians.shef.ac.uk.
- ^ College, Eton (27 September 2018). "The Eton Register ...: 1862-1868". Spottiswood, Privately Printed – via Google Books.
- DL (1894-1967), son of Captain H F Haszard of the Royal Navy, married in 1928 Dyonese Rosamond Levett, daughter and heir of Captain W. S. B. Levett DL JP of Milford Hall, Stafford and had two sons, the eldest of whom (Richard Byrd Levett Haszard) inherited Milford Hall. His son Richard Byrd Levett Haszard, married in 1990 Sarah, daughter of Thomas Michael McNair Scott of Highfield House, Jersey, currently resides at Milford Hall and is nominated for Staffordshire High Sherifffor 2009. The couple have three children.
- ^ "The High Sheriffs' Association". www.highsheriffs.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
References
Further reading
- The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese Levett Haszard, privately printed
- Burkes Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1 (1847) p 724
External links
- YeOldSussexPages.com History of Sussex
- Levett of Milford Hall, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Bernard Burke, 1863
- Kew Palace official site
- The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis Christopher Loyd, 1951
- Rev. Richard Levett of Milford Hall
- Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Alfred Williams, 1899" Packington Hall
- Parliament Fine of William Levett, Gent., House of Lords Journal, 1647, British History Online
- Tomb of Lt. Richard Byrd Levett, killed in France, 1917, Church of St Thomas, Walton on the Hill, Staffordshire
- Monument to Elizabeth Mary Levett, 1915, Church of St Thomas, Walton on the Hill, Staffordshire
- Monument to Rev. Richard Levett, died 1843, Church of St Thomas, Walton on the Hill, Staffordshire