Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Baronet (1670 – 15 October 1749) was an English aristocrat. He was the only son of Walter Calverley 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, and lying north of the town of Pudsey. The population of Calverley in 2011 was 4, ...

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, and Frances Thompson, daughter and heiress of Henry Thompson of

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, Yorkshire. He was baptised on 16 January 1670 at Calverley, and matriculated at

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, on 30 June 1687, aged 17. Cokayne, George Edward (1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 13 He married Julia Blackett, eldest daughter of Sir William Blackett on 7 January 1707 at Newcastle. In about 1709, he completed the building of a new house at Esholt Hall,

. He was created a baronet on 11 December 1711. His wife died on 17 September 1736; he died on 15 October 1749, aged 79, and was buried at Calverley. He was succeeded by his son

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