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Theophilus John Levett
Colonel Theophilus John Levett (11 December 1829 – 27 February 1899) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lichfield from 1880 to 1885.
Levett was the son of John Levett of Wychnor Park, Staffordshire and his wife Sophia Eliza Kennedy, the daughter of Hon. Robert Kennedy, third son of Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis. Levett was a Captain in the 1st Life Guards and inherited Wychnor on the death of his father
Berkeley John Talbot Levett, an officer in the Scots Guards. A third child, a daughter, never married.
Theophilus John Levett was a member of London's Carlton Club.
References.
- The Peerage
- Death of Col. T. J. Levett, A History of the Meynell Hounds and Country, 1780-1901, J. L. Randall, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Ltd., London, 1901
Further reading.
- "The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World"