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Thomas Levett (rector) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Thomas Levett (priest)
Rev. Thomas Levett (died 1843) served as rector of Whittington, Staffordshire, for 40 years, and as a large landowner in addition to being a clergyman, played a role in the development of Staffordshire's educational system. He was also a member of one of Staffordshire's longest-serving families in ecclesiastical circles, having produced three rectors of the parish of Whittington. The Levett family also produced members of parliament, High Sheriffs of Staffordshire, Lichfield town recorders and businessmen who were friends and contemporaries of Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, writer Anna Seward, actor David Garrick and other local luminaries. Several streets in Lichfield are named for the family. ==Biography== Rev. Thomas Levett was the son of Thomas Levett of Packington Hall and nephew of John Levett, who sat for one term as a Tory Member of Parliament before he was recalled. Rev. Levett was the grandson of Theophilus Levett, Lichfield town clerk in the early eighteenth century.〔(Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Isabel of Essex Volume, Marquis of Ruvigny, Raineval Staff, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994 )〕 Large landowners, the Levett family also made liberal endowments to the church at Whittington.〔(''The Free Schools and Endowments of Staffordshire, and Their Fulfilment'', George Griffith, Whittaker & Co., London, 1860 )〕 Rev. Levett lived in Packington Hall, a Levett family property that had been acquired in the eighteenth century.〔(''The Family Topographer'', Samuel Tymms, J. B. Nichols and Son, London, 1834 )〕 The same Levett family also lived at Wychnor Hall at nearby Wychnor, Staffordshire.〔(''Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire'', Alfred Williams, of Lichfield, Walter Henry Mallett, F. Brown, 1899 )〕 The family also owned the ancient woods at Hopwas, Staffordshire, a holding inherited by Rev. Thomas Levett.〔(Hopwas Hays, History, Gazeteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851, GENUKI, genuki.org )〕
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