Joseph Greaves was a High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1765.
It was his father who had commissioned the building of Aston Lodge.
[1] This 2+1⁄2-storey building stood in its own grounds behind wrought iron gates by the ironsmith Robert Bakewell.
[2] When Greaves' father died in 1749 he inherited the large five-by-three-bay house which was then less than twenty years old.
On his death he left his lands to his wife Ann.