| Administrative History | Vauncey Harpur Crewe (1846-1924), 10th Baronet, was born at Calke Abbey and baptised at Calke, the son of John Harpur and Georgiana Crewe. He was privately educated at Calke. As a young man Vauncey Harpur Crewe travelled extensively abroad. At the time of his twenty-first birthday celebration dinners were held in Derby, Swarkestone, Breadsall, Ashby de la Zouch, Longnor and Warslow. In 1868 arrangements were initiated for a marriage between Vauncey Harpur Crewe and Mary Clara Shirley, 1848-1929, daughter of Evelyn Philip Shirley. Although no such marriage took place, the documents relating to preparation of a marriage settlement are at the Warwickshire Record Office. At Lea Marston in 1876 Vauncey Harpur Crewe married Isabel Adderley, daughter of Charles Bowyer Adderley. The couple lived at Calke Abbey and at Warslow Hall. There were four daughters and one son of this marriage. In 1871 Vauncey Harpur Crewe was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Staffordshire. In the 1890s he was several times nominated for selection as High Sheriff of Derbyshire, but was not selected until 1900. Vauncey Harpur Crewe pursued strong interests in the natural world, including ornithology and the cultivation of orchids. He died at Calke and is buried there. There is a memorial inscription in Calke church.
Hilda Ethelfreda Harpur Crewe (1877-1949) was born at 35 Eaton Place, Westminster, London, (the residence of her maternal grandfather, Charles Bowyer Adderley), and baptised at Calke, the daughter of Vauncey Harpur and and Isabel Crewe. As a young woman Hilda Crewe won prizes for livestock shown at local agricultural shows. She attended local social events, such as the annual Meynell Hunt Ball. In 1918 at Ticknall she married Colonel Godfrey Mosley 1863-1945, (son of Rowland Mosley, rector of Egginton, and Jane Every), a solicitor in practice in Derby. There were no children of the marriage. The couple lived successively at The Grange, Quarndon and Willington Grange before moving to Calke Abbey in 1924. In 1921, following the death of her brother, Hilda Mosley formally changed her surname to Harpur-Fynderne in compliance with the will of her uncle, Hugo Harpur Crewe. At the Chancery Division of the High Court in 1922 she obtained a judgement that her inheritance from her uncle did not depend on her continuing to use the surname Harpur-FyndernE. Hilda Mosley died in 1949 and was buried at Calke. |