The Harpur, later Harpur-Crewe Baronetcy, of Calke Abbey in the County of Derby, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 8 September 1626 for Henry Harpur. He was a grandson of Richard Harpur, Justice of the Common Pleas

Court of Common Pleas (England)

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, of Swarkestone Hall

Swarkestone Hall Pavilion

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, Swarkestone

Swarkestone

Swarkestone is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England.Swarkestone has a very old village church, a full cricket pitch, the Crewe and Harpur pub, a canal with locks, moorings and canalside tea-rooms...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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. The fourth Baronet was High Sheriff of Derbyshire

High Sheriff of Derbyshire

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 in 1702. He married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Crewe, 2nd Baron Crew (see Baron Crew

Baron Crew

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). The fifth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Worcester

Worcester (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Tamworth

Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The sixth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Derbyshire

Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The seventh Baronet assumed the additional surname of Crewe in 1807 in commemoration of his ancestry. The eighth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Derbyshire South

South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The ninth Baronet was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1853. The tenth Baronet was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1900. The title became extinct on his death in 1924.

The Derbyshire estate passed down on the female line and in 1949 was inherited by Charles Jenney, grandson of the last Baronet, who changed his name to Harpur-Crewe. Inheritance tax problems enforced the sale of the estate on his death in 1981 and in 1985 Calke Abbey

Calke Abbey

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 passed to the National Trust

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Harpur, later Harpur-Crewe Baronets, of Calke Abbey (1626)

• Sir Henry Harpur, 1st Baronet (1585-1638)
• Sir John Harpur, 2nd Baronet (1616-1669)
• Sir John Harpur, 3rd Baronet (1645-1681)
• Sir John Harpur, 4th Baronet (1679-1741)
• Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet (1708-1748)
• Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Baronet
  Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Baronet
  Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Baronet was an English Tory politician who represented the constituency of Derbyshire.Harpur was the son of Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet and Lady Caroline Manners, daughter of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland. He succeeded his father to the Baronetcy in 1748. He lived at...
  
   (1739-1789)
• Sir Henry Harpur Crewe, 7th Baronet (1763-1819)
• Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8th Baronet
  Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8th Baronet
  Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8th Baronet was an English Tory politician who represented the constituency of South Derbyshire.-Biography:...
  
   (1795-1844)
• Sir John Harpur-Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-1886)
• Sir Vauncey Harpur-Crewe, 10th Baronet (1846-1924)