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.
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 | Walter Calverley | 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 |
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.
The Blacketts of Wylam were a branch of the Blackett family of Hoppyland, County Durham, England and were related to the Blackett baronets.
In 1604 the landowner, Walter Calverley, went insane and murdered some of his children in Calverley Hall.
In 1757 Anne Douglas the heiress of Halton married Sir Edward Blackett and the castle remains a residence of the Blackett family.
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.
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.