Levett

Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from [de] Livet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British Commonwealth territories.

[19][20] Milford Hall passed in the female line to the Haszard family,[21] and Wychnor Park was sold by the Levetts to Lt-Col W. E. Harrison in 1913, this later becoming a country club.

[25] Even the 1847 edition, produced at a time when Burke's publications were inclusive of vague, unproven 'family traditions' (a practice subsequently widely criticised),[26][27] makes no mention of any earlier ancestors or Norman origin in either family's pedigree.

He subsequently failed at British East Florida as a planter; his son Francis Jr. returned to America, where he became the first to grow Sea Island cotton.

[32] Today there are many Levetts (the spelling of the name varies) living outside England, including in South Africa, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand,[33][34] Canada, and Ireland.

Bookplate of the Rev. Thomas Levett , Arms of Levett impaling Gresley , Packington Hall, Staffordshire
Assembled partygoers at Tranby Croft , 11 September 1890. The Royal baccarat scandal . Pictured are Capt. Berkeley Levett and Edward, Prince of Wales and others.
Capt. Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson , descendant of merchant Francis Levett , dueling in a trilobite exoskeleton . Drawn by his friend Gideon Mantell , fellow member of The Royal Society
The execution of King Charles I of England , to which he was accompanied on the scaffold by courtier William Levett , Esq.
Sign for Buxted , Sussex , commemorating first iron cannon cast in the Weald by iron foundry of Parson William Levett
Hops token, 30 bushels, Exden Hop Farm, Newenden , Kent , Charles Levett, 1865
Ruins of Levitstown Mill , County Kildare , Ireland
Coat of arms of Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett . Strype's Survey of London, 1720