The Blackett Baronetcy, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of England on 23 January 1685 for William Blackett, third son of the first Baronet of the 1673 creation.
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He was educated at Eton College and served in the Rifle Brigade in the Crimean War and was seriously injured at the Sebastopol Redan.
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Blackett was succeeded by his elder son, Edward, the second Baronet who represented Ripon and Northumberland in the House of Commons and built Newby Hall.
It was created on 11 November 1711 for Walter Calverley.
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The Calverley, later Calverley-Blackett Baronetcy, of Calverley in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
From 1818, mining in the area was controlled by W B Lead Co, a mining company established by the Blacketts, a prominent Newcastle family which had leased mining rights in Weardale from the Bishop of Durham.
Williams-Wynn baronets | Christopher Blackett | Blackett | Wynn baronets | Patrick Blackett | Naylor-Leyland baronets | Hulse baronets | Gell baronets | Garrard baronets | Crawley-Boevey baronets | Congreve baronets | Codrington baronets | Chadwyck-Healey baronets | Cave-Browne-Cave baronets | Blackett baronets | Acland baronets | Wilmot baronets | Slingsby baronets | Sir William Blackett | Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet | Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett | Nugent baronets | Mosley Baronets | Mackworth baronets | Littleton baronets | Grant baronets | Graham Baronets | Gethin baronets | Frederick baronets | Esmonde baronets |
The Blacketts of Wylam were a branch of the Blackett family of Hoppyland, County Durham, England and were related to the Blackett baronets.
In 1757 Anne Douglas the heiress of Halton married Sir Edward Blackett and the castle remains a residence of the Blackett family.