| Administrative History | Charles Arthur Richard Jenney (1917-1981) was born in Bedford, the son of Arthur William and Frances Caroline Julia Jenney (youngest daughter of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th baronet). In 1936 he was commissioned as second lieutenant, Sherwood Foresters. His twenty-first birthday in 1938 was marked by the ringing of church bells at Ticknall and a celebration tea was provided for estate workers at Calke Abbey. In 1949, following the death of his aunt Hilda Mosley, eldest daughter of Sir Vauncey, Charles Jenney succeeded to the Calke estate. In 1961 he changed his name to Charles Harpur-Crewe (deed at D6910/15/4); and in the same year he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire. He died at Calke and was buried there. He left no will: death duty accounts are held at the National Archives at Kew. Responsibility for the Calke estates then passed to his brother Henry Francis Jenney (1921-1991), who had also assumed the surname Harpur Crewe.
Henry Harpur Crewe (1921-1991) was born in Kensington, London. He served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was a member of Derbyshire County Council and of the General Synod of the Church of England, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire in 1978 and High Sheriff in 1991. Following Charles Harpur Crewe's death, he was active in a campaign to enable Calke Abbey to be accepted by the National Trust. Henry Harpur Crewe is buried at Calke, where there is a memorial plaque in the church. Patrick O'Connor, a former jockey who worked wth him, has published a memoir entitled "Glorious Obsessions of Calke Abbey". |