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, and lying north of the town of Pudsey. The population of Calverley in 2011 was 4, ...

in the County of York, was a title in the

Baronetage of Great Britain Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...

. It was created on 11 November 1711 for

Walter Calverley Walter Calverley (1579–1605) was an English squire from Yorkshire. In some of her letters, his mother-in-law spelled the name "Coverley", which suggests that it was then pronounced with the "al" as in "calf" ("Calverley" means "pasture for calv ...

. 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 British House ...

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 (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 wa ...

(1670–1749) * Sir Walter Blackett, 2nd Baronet (1707–1777)

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

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