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unusual facts about Sir Edward Littleton, 2nd Baronet



Bibby Line

In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.

Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet

As this suggests, he was of Cavalier sympathies, and an important counterweight locally to Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, lord of the manor of Penkridge, who was an important leader of the Puritan and Parliamentary cause, who was killed during the siege of Lichfield Cathedral in 1643.

Sir Edward Littleton, 2nd Baronet

For over three hundred years before the dissolution of the college, its dean had been the current Archbishop of Dublin.

Although St Michael's became the centre of a large Anglican parish, it was still not absorbed into the Diocese of Lichfield.

Neither cousin marriage nor inter-generational marriage was unusual among 17th-century gentry.

Sir Edward Littleton, 4th Baronet

The larger part of the manor, conferred on lay landowners, had belonged to heads of the Greville family, later Barons Brooke, since the early 16th century.

The original moated manor house became ruinous after the Littletons abandoned it, but the Gatehouse and Chapel were restored in the 1880s.


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