Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Baronet (18 December 1707 – 14 February 1777) was a British

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and politician who sat in the

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from 1734 to 1777. Wallington House - geograph

He was born Walter Calverley at

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, the only son of

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 ...

, and Julia Blackett, daughter of Sir William Blackett (1657–1705), 1st Baronet. He entered

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, aged 16 on 28 February 1724.

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(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 13 In 1728, he inherited the substantial estates of his uncle

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 ...

, at

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and

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, on condition that he married Elizabeth Orde (his uncle's natural daughter) within twelve months and adopted the name and

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. The marriage took place on 29 September 1729 at Newcastle. His change of surname to Blackett was later confirmed by an Act of Parliament in 1733. He was

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in 1731–32 and elected

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in the

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for

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over seven parliaments from 1734 until his death. He was an

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of the

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and

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five times, in 1735, 1748, 1756, 1764 and 1771. His philanthropy in Newcastle was farily extensive including building a library, relief for those made unemployed by the harbour freezing, regular support for

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and support for the local clergy. He inherited Sir William Blackett's mansion at Pilgrim Street, Newcastle and in 1749 inherited his father's baronetcy and estates at

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and

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, which he soon sold. He settled at

, where he expended considerable sums on the improvement of

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, remodelling in the then fashionable

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to designs by architect

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. In 1755, he commissioned Garrett to build a folly in the style of a medieval castle ( Rothley Castle) on the hillside above Wallington. His wife died on 21 September 1759, and was buried 6 days later at St Nicholas's, Newcastle. His only daughter, Elizabeth, died young, and on his death in London aged 69 on 14 February 1777 the Calverley baronetcy became extinct. He was buried at Calverley. Under the will of Sir William Blackett his inherited estates passed on the death of Sir Walter to Sir Thomas Wentworth, the eldest surviving son of Sir Walter's aunt. Sir Walter's own estates, including Wallington, which he had purchased outright, passed to the Trevelyan family into which his sister Julia had married.Trevelyan, p. 40

References

*''Memoirs of the Public Life of Sir Walter Blackett of Wallington, Baronet'' John Straker 1819

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* Cruikshanks, Eveline (1970
"BLACKETT, Walter (1707–77), of Calverley, nr. Leeds, Yorks. and Wallington Hall, Northumb."
in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754'' edited by

Romney Sedgwick Richard Romney Sedgwick (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1972) was a British historian, civil servant and diplomat. He was the elder son of Professor Adam Sedgwick, 1854–1913, and Laura Helen Elizabeth Robinson. He married Mana St David Hodson, daught ...

Trevelyan family archive

National Portrait Gallery

Portrait in Bradford Museum

Portrait at Wallington Hall

Portrait as a baby

Rothley Castle by Keys to the Past

The Blacketts of North East England
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