Talk:Levett

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The Levett family in England produced a Lord Mayor of London who owned Kew Palace (Richard Levett), an Oxford University dean and Dean of Bristol (William Levett), a courtier to King Charles I who accompanied the King on the day of his execution and later became embroiled in controversy over whether the King had penned the Eikon Basilica (another William Levett), an English tobacco merchant who married the sister of Sir John Holt, the Lord Chief Justice (Francis Levett), a British planter who became the first to plant Sea Island cotton in America (another Francis Levett), several members of Parliament (including John and Theophilus Levett), the first lords of Firle, Sussex, as well other Levett family members who married into the families of Byron, Darwin, Anson, as well as the Earls of Shaftesbury, Denbigh and others. The family also gave its name to two English towns, Hooton Levitt (or Levett) in Yorkshire, as well as Catsfield Levett, Sussex, now simply Catsfield. This family also produced an eminent medical doctor at Charterhouse who wrote a pioneering tract on smallpox (Dr. Henry Levett), a Royal Air Force pilot who later aided Israel in its establishment as a state (Gordon Levett), an early Sussex vicar who established the iron foundry industry in Sussex (William Levett of Buxted), and an early friend and correspondent of Samuel Johnson (Lichfield town clerk Theophilus Levett).

Then the page would make a very nice disambiguation page- why not turn it into one and remove the proposed deletion notice? J Milburn (talk) 18:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion and your help. Great idea. MarmadukePercy (talk) 18:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)