page_title: Wychnor Hall
section_title: Levett family
hierarchical_section_title: Wychnor Hall / History / Levett family
caption_attribution_description: English: Group portrait of John, Theophilus and Frances Levett, full-length, the younger two seated on a donkey, in a wooded landscape.
context_page_description: Wychnor Hall is Grade II Listed early 18th-century country house near Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, formerly owned by the Levett Family. The hall has been converted to a Country Club.
context_section_description: John Levett, the son of Lichfield politician Theophilus Levett, purchased Wychnor in 1765. John, a landowner, investor and sometime member of the Lunar Society), was Member of Parliament for Lichfield. 
  Though he died childless, Wychnor remained for many years the home of the Levett family.
  John' s nephew Theophilus Levett was Recorder of Lichfield and High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1809.  His friend General William Dyott, Aide-de-camp to King George III, attended Levett's simple funeral at Wychnor and noted that Levett "has left great riches to his younger children with the exception of his son Arthur, to whom he has bequeathed £4,000."
  A second John Levett was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1846.
  Theophilus John Levett, grandson of the Sheriff of the same name, was M.P. for Lichfield from 1880 to 1885.
caption: The Levett Children. John, Theophilus and Frances Levett. Portrait by James Ward, RA, Wychnor, Staffordshire, November 1811
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