John Levett

John Levett (1721 — 1799) of Wychnor Park, Staffordshire, was an English landowner and investor, and a Tory politician.

[1] The Levett family had common roots in Sussex, and the branch had moved to Staffordshire.

Questions were raised about his election and he was unseated after a petition by his opponent Hugo Meynell, who re placed him as MP.

Levett was a sometime member of the Lunar Society, and an early investor in the industrial projects of Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton.

[6] In his will, John Levett assigned part of the revenues he derived from his Soho Manufactory investments to the Prebendary of Curborough, Staffordshire, to which his mother's family the Babington's had ancestral connections.