Harpur-Crewe baronets

The ninth Baronet assumed the surname Harpur Crewe and was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1853.

His grandson, Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet made large contributions to the collection.

[1] Nowadays the natural history collection at Calke Abbey is one of the largest in its kind in the National Trust.

[2] 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 forced the sale of the estate on his death in 1981 and in 1985 Calke Abbey passed to the National Trust.