In 1604 the landowner, Walter Calverley, went insane and murdered some of his children in Calverley 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.
Walter Calverley | Walter Calverley Trevelyan | Charles Stuart Calverley | Calverley | Barber and Calverley |
W. S. Gilbert refers to the "Grace of an odalisque on a divan" in Colonel Calverley's song "If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery" from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience.
He bequeathed his estates at Allendale, Northumberland and Wallington Hall, Cambo to his nephew Sir Walter Calverley, 2nd Baronet of Calverley, conditional upon the latter's marriage to Elizabeth Orde, Blackett's natural daughter and his change of name to Blackett.