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Excerpt from The Calverley Charters Presented to the British Museum, Vol. 1
IN 1866 a large collection of deeds, pedigrees, and other documents relating to the old Yorkshire family of Calverley of Calverley, was presented to the British Museum by the late Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart. These consisted of 62 3 deeds [additional Charters 16580-17202] and 16 books, pedigrees, etc. [additional mss. 27409 Sir Walter Calverley, the second and last baronet, sold the Calverley and Esholt properties after the death of his only child, Elizabeth, in 1752. Sir Walter died in 1777, leaving a sister and sole heiress, Julia, wife of Sir George Trevelyan, third baronet, of Nettlecombe, co. Somerset. Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, the donor of the mss., was his great-grandson.
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