page_title: Thomas Levett-Prinsep
section_title: Croxall Hall descent
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Levett-Prinsep / Life / Croxall Hall descent
caption_attribution_description: Croxall Hall in Staffordshire. Croxall Hall is a restored and extended 16th century manor house situated at Croxall, Staffordshire ( close to the southeastern border with Derbyshire and once part of that county). It is a Grade II* listed building. The manor of Croxall was owned by the Derbyshire family of Curzon and they rebuilt the old manor house in the late 16th century. It was a substantial property, taxed in 1662 for Hearth Tax purposes as having sixteen hearths. The property passed to the Sackville family following the marriage of Mary Curzon, daughter and heiress of the last male Curzon to Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset.
context_page_description: Thomas Levett-Prinsep, born Thomas Levett, was an English landowner in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. He took on the additional name of Prinsep on inheriting his uncle's holding of Croxall Hall.
context_section_description: Croxall Hall is located eight miles (13 km) southwest of Burton-on-Trent. The Curzon family held it for 15 consecutive generations. Mary Curzon, the heiress of the Curzon family and governess to the Royal Family, married Sir Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset.
  John Prinsep Esq., India merchant and progenitor of the Anglo-Indian family of the same name, purchased the property from George Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset, and became lord of the manor. The Prinseps became well known for the cattle they bred at their Croxall estate, which at 1,450 acres (5.9 km²) was said to be the biggest family farm in Derbyshire at the time. Croxall Hall is near to Catton Hall, once a property of the Anson family, who later intermarried with the Levetts of nearby Milford Hall, distant relations of Thomas Levett-Prinsep. 
  Thomas Prinsep, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1802, died without an heir, and so left Croxall Hall to his nephew, the son of Theophilus Levett of Wychnor Hall, High Sheriff of Staffordshire, who had married in 1794 Frances Prinsep, daughter of John Prinsep of Croxall Hall, and sister of Thomas Prinsep. Prinsep left his property to his nephew Levett on condition that he adopt the name and coat of arms of Prinsep in addition to Levett.
caption: Croxall Hall, inherited by Thomas Levett-Prinsep from his uncle Thomas Prinsep
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