The Calverley, later Blackett Baronetcy, of

Calverley Calverley is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, on the A657 road, about from Leeds city centre and from Bradford. The population of Calverley in 2011 was 4,328. It is part of the City of Leeds w ...

in the County of York, was a title in the

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. It was created on 11 November 1711 for

Walter Calverley Walter Calverley (c. 1570–1605) was an English squire from Yorkshire. Perhaps the most infamous member of the Calverley family, he is most known for murdering two of his young children, leading to his own execution by pressing in 1605. His sto ...

. He was succeeded by his son

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, the second Baronet. In 1729 he married Elizabeth Orde, illegitimate daughter of

Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (11 February 1690 – 25 September 1728), of Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Wallington Hall, Northumberland, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Comm ...

who on his death in 1728 had bequeathed his estate to Calverley, his nephew, on the condition that he marry Elizabeth and assume the surname of Blackett. He and Elizabeth had no children and the baronetcy became extinct on Sir Walter Blackett's death in 1777.

Cokayne, George Edward George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standar ...

(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 13

Calverley, later Blackett, baronets, of Calverley (1711)

Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Baronet Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Baronet (1670 – 15 October 1749) was an English aristocrat. He was the only son of Walter Calverley of Calverley, Yorkshire, and Frances Thompson, daughter and heiress of Henry Thompson of Esholt, Yorkshire. He was ...

(1670–1749) *

Sir Walter Blackett, 2nd Baronet Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Baronet (18 December 1707 – 14 February 1777) was a British baronet and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1777. He was born Walter Calverley at Otley, the only son of Sir Walter Calverl ...

(1707–1777)

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The Blacketts of North East England
{{DEFAULTSORT:Calverley-Blackett Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain

Calverley, later Blackett, baronets, of Calverley (1711)

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