Thomas Levett (priest)

He was also a member of one of Staffordshire's longest-serving families in ecclesiastical circles, having produced three rectors of the parish of Whittington.

The Levett family also produced members of parliament, High Sheriffs of Staffordshire, Lichfield town recorders and businessmen who were friends and contemporaries of Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, writer Anna Seward, actor David Garrick and other local luminaries.

[3] Large landowners, the Levett family also made liberal endowments to the church at Whittington.

[6] The family also owned the ancient woods at Hopwas, Staffordshire, a holding inherited by Rev.

There are memorials to the Levett family in St. Giles Church in the village, located about three miles (5 km) from Lichfield.

[11] The artist James Ward, a longtime family friend, painted the rector as he hunted at Packington in a canvas called Portrait of the Rev.

[18] Packington Hall, designed by architect James Wyatt, sat in 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of parkland owned by Thomas Levett.

[19] Another distant branch of the Sussex Levett family lives at Milford Hall in the same county.