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Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Baronet (14 October 1846 – 13 December 1924) was a British baronet (see Harpur Baronets) known for his eccentricity and his natural history collections which he maintained at his home in the 1000 acre estate of Calke Abbey.
Jul 12, 2016 · Sir Henry Harpur-Crewe (1763-1819), known as The Isolated Lord, was the first to display the profound reclusiveness, unsociable and obsessive behaviour that would go on to characterise subsequent generations.
- Modernising Calke Abbey
- Saving Calke Abbey For The Nation
- Preserving Calke in A State of Decay
Sir Vauncey was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Hilda. To settle death duties, Hilda sold half of her father’s natural history collection, as well as some books. With her husband, Godfrey Mosley, Hilda rationalised the estate, reducing the number of employees and living in a small section of the house. Hilda was the first to install a telephone a...
Charles’ brother Henry inherited the estate in 1981, at a time of high capital taxation. He faced a tax debt which, at the height of the crisis, attracted interest charges of £1,300 a day. Henry worked to save Calke for the nation, granting permission for historian Howard Colvin to access family records. This resulted in Colvin’s book, Calke Abbey,...
When Calke Abbey was handed to the National Trust in 1985, we decided not to restore these rooms, which had been untouched for many years, but rather preserve them as they were found. Calke vividly portrays a period in the 20th century when many country houses did not survive to tell their story. Over the years, we've carried out many repairs to ha...
Mar 7, 2021 · By 1861 she had moved to Calke Abbey to be nurse here to Sir John Harpur-Crewe, Georgiana, and their three children, Vauncey, aged 14, Alice, aged 13 and Hugo who was only three. The role of nurse in a large household was roughly the same as a nanny.
The Harpurs and Harpur-Crews assembled a vast collection of natural history objects. The seventh Baronet probably started collecting birds as taxidermy specimens. His grandson, Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet made large contributions to the collection.
2024 marks 100 years since the death of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Baronet. Known for a keen interest in nature and wildlife, Vauncey’s legacy stands testament to this in Calke Abbey’s collection.
The last baronet who inherited the house, Sir Vauncey Harpur-Crewe, was interested in natural history and collected many specimens. Visitors can still view his extensive collection of 900 stuffed animals, just under a third of the original collection.
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