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People

Members of the Levett family include:

• Ada Elizabeth (A.E.) Levett, born Bodiam, East Sussex, renowned medieval historian, vice principal, St Hilda's College, Oxford, professor at Westfield College, University of London, d. 1932
• Arthur Levett, born Petworth, West Sussex, d. 1700, Talbot County, Maryland
• Capt. Berkeley John Talbot Levett, London, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Scots Guard, Gentleman Usher to the Royal Family, married brewery heiress Sibell Bass, witness in the infamous Royal Baccarat Scandal involving the Prince of Wales
• Capt. Christopher Levett, English explorer of New England, first owner of Portland, Maine, born at York, England, 1586
• Major Edward Levett, Wychnor Park, Staffordshire, Rowsley, Derbyshire, Pau, France, married Caroline Georgina Longley, daughter of Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener, Flag Lieutenant, Royal Navy, Bursar, Keble College, Oxford, son of Col. Richard Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, took additional name of Scrivener on inheritance, married daughter of British diplomat Sir Harry Smith Parkes, lived at Sibton Manor, Yoxford, Suffolk
• Elias Lyvet, Abbot, Rufford Abbey, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, 1332
• Sir Elias de Lyvet, Knight, attempted insurrection against King Henry IV, 1413
• Elton Levett, Esq., Nottingham, surgeon; daughter Frances married Hon. George Byron of Rochdale; Elton Levett married to Elizabeth Rickards, daughter of John Rickards, Alderman and Mayor of Nottingham
• Ernest Laurence Levett, K.C., graduate, Fellow, St Johns College, Cambridge, Bencher, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1873, son of Benjamin Levett Esq., Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Lt. Col Eustace Levett, OBE, Chief Signal Officer, China Command (Hong Kong) 1941–45; P.O.W., World War II
• F. M. Jane Levett, Lecturer, Department of Logic, University of Glasgow, translator (as M. J. Levett), Plato's Theaetetus, sister of historian Elizabeth Levett, d. 1974
• Francis Levett, English tobacco merchant who married the sister of Sir John Holt, the Lord Chief Justice of England, partner in Sir Richard Levett & Co. with his brother Richard; son Richard a barrister and Alderman of London; ancestor of British geologist and inventor Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson, a pioneer of photography
• Francis Levett, British planter in East Florida, built an early Florida plantation, which the family was forced to abandon; his son returned to Georgia to become the first to plant Sea Island cotton (Gossypium barbadense) in America
• George Levett, colonist, arrived in Virginia Colony on ship Bona Nova, servant, 1619
• George Alfred Levett, assistant pantry steward, 21, Southampton, England, RMS Titanic
• Gerald Aylmer Levett-Yeats, wildlife artist, illustrator, Calcutta, India, brother of Sidney Levett-Yeats; illustrator of The Birds of Singapore Island and The Common Birds of India (1925)
• Sir Gilbert de Lyvet, Knight, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, 1233–34, 1235–37, witness to 1210 gift by Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, in honour of her father Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, whose tomb is in the Cathedral
• Gordon Levett (1921–2000), pilot, Royal Air Force, World War II, member of Squadron 101, First Fighter Squadron in the Israeli Air Force, only English Gentile pilot in Israeli Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel, Israeli Air Force, 1948
• Rev. Grevile Marais (G.M.) Livett, Canon, Rochester Cathedral, later vicar of Wateringbury, Kent, antiquarian, FSA, author on ecclesiastical architecture
• Dr. Henry Levett, Old Carthusian, eminent physician at London Charterhouse who wrote a pioneering tract on smallpox, 1710
• James Levett, Mayor, Waterford, Ireland, 1610
• John Leavitt, English Puritan, tailor, founding deacon, Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1681
• John Livet, Lord of the Manor of Firle, Sussex, 1316
• John Levett, Little Horsted, East Sussex, one of Sussex's earliest ironmasters, d. 1535, brother Rev. William Levett took over family iron interests
• John Livett, Mayor, Hastings, East Sussex, 1506, 1514, 1520, 1552
• John Levett, Salehurst, Sussex, purchaser of Bodiam Castle, 1588
• John Levet, London merchant, member of the Virginia Company of London, 1609
• John Levett, naturalist, author of The Ordering of Bees: Or, the True History of Managing Them, London, 1634
• John Levett, Mayor, Waterford, Ireland, 1649
• John Levett, Tory member of Parliament, Staffordshire, 1761–62, friend of Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton and others, sometime member of the Lunar Society
• John Levett, merchant, Alderman, Mayor, Calcutta, India, 1768–70; born Constantinople, son of English Turkey merchant married to Charlotte de Peleran, daughter of French diplomat Pierre Armand de Peleran
• John Levett, athlete, born Battersea, twice champion runner of England, ran 10 miles (16 km) in 52:35, 1852
• John Levett (1927–2008), postal historian, Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London (President 1986–88); member of honour, European Academy of Philately; signatory, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists; authority on crash and wreck mail, maritime and siege mail
• John Levett, prize-winning poet, (winner, British National Poetry Competition), Their Perfect Lives shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Prize, Norfolk, England
• John Levett-Yeats, grandson of English merchant planter Francis Levett, son of David Yeats, M.D., Secretary of British East Florida, married to Frances Arabella, daughter of Philip Reinagle, Royal Academy, artist
• Keppel Bagot Levett, one of the first casualties of the BSAP (British South Africa Police) in World War II, died on active service, March 1941
• Lawrence Levett Esq., JP, owner of The Grove, Hollington, East Sussex, landowner, son of John Levett, ironmaster, died 1585, his estates passing to his sister Mary (Levett) Eversfield
• Levett Blackborne, Esq., graduate of St Catharine's College, Cambridge; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, London, son of Abraham Blackborne, mercer of London; grandson of Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett; inherited Levett holdings at Kew and sold the Dutch House to the Royal Family; longtime adviser to the Dukes of Rutland
• Maud Sophia Levett (Mrs. William Swynnerton Byrd Levett), author, writer on religious themes, Milford Hall, Milford, Staffordshire
• Nicholas Levett, Gentleman Usher to the British Royal Household, 1660–81
• Rev. Nicholas Levett, rector, Westbourne, West Sussex, fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, buried at Beckley, Oxfordshire, 1687
• Percival Levett, merchant, Chamberlain and Sheriff of the city of York, 1597
• Rev. Ralph Levett, Christ's College, Cambridge, domestic chaplain to Sir William Wray; rector, Grainsby, Lincolnshire, Puritan sympathizer, protégé of Rev. John Cotton, brother-in-law of Rev. John Wheelwright, b. 1600
• Rawdon Levett, Pocklington School, St. John's College, Cambridge; mathematics professor, second master at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where Levett House is named for him; brother of barrister Ernest Laurence Levett
• Reginald Lyvet, August 1282, Dublin, Ireland, nominated by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk to serve as his attorney in Ireland for one year on Bigod's absence on the King's business in Wales
• Richard Levett, Knight, Sussex, named as one of county's leading citizens, 1411
• Richard Levette, English burgess of Calais, France, 1422
• Richard Levett, Mayor, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, d. 1618

• Rev. Richard Levett, vicar, Ashwell, Rutland, father of Lord Mayor Sir Richard Levett and Dean of Bristol William Levett
• Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London (1699), owner of Kew Palace, adventurer member, London East India Company, Governor, Bank of England (1698), proprietor, Sir Richard Levett & Co., brother of Rev. Dr. William Levett, Dean of Bristol
• Rev. Richard Levett, rector, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 1765–1805, married his cousin Anne Levett, daughter of Theophilus Levett
• Lieut. Col. Richard Walter Byrd Levett, Old Etonian, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, Wales, Lieutenant Colonel of 4th Batt. North Staffs Regiment, name changed to Richard W.B. Mirehouse on succeeding to Mirehouse family property at The Hall, Angle, Pembrokeshire. Brother of Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener of Sibton Abbey, Suffolk
• Second Lieutenant Richard Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Old Etonian, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action, Irles, France, 14 March 1917
• Sir Robert de Livet, Knight, West Firle, Sussex, elected to hold inquests in Hastings, Pevensey and Lewes, 1279–88, died 1316
• Robert Levet, native of Hull, Yorkshire, impoverished apothecary who lived with Samuel Johnson, author of a famous poem eulogizing Levet
• Robin Levett (1925–2008), Australian author and horse breeder, "First Lady of Australian Racing", wife of businessman Geoffrey Levett
• Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats, born to once-important British colonial family, descendant of East Florida planter Francis Levett, low-level bureaucrat in the India Office civil service, friend to Rudyard Kipling, fellow member of Lahore's Punjab Club, became minor Victorian novelist, author of The Honour of Savelli
• Theophilus Levett, Lichfield town clerk 1721–46, early friend and correspondent of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Theophilus John Levett, Member of Parliament, Staffordshire 1880–85
• Theophilus Basil Percy Levett, son of MP Theophilus John Levett, Eton graduate, Lieut., Coldstream Guards, JP, barrister, Inner Temple, London, died 1929
• Thomas Levett, lord of the manor, Catsfield Levett, East Sussex, 1347
• Thomas Levett, landowner, Sussex, sold the manor of Gotham in Bexhill-on-Sea to James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele; his daughter Elizabeth married William Gildredge ca. 1440
• Rt. Rev. Thomas Levet, Canon of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, son of William Levet and Anastasia Walsh, who were determined by Royal hearing into Levet's parentage (amidst allegations of bastardy) to be his "lawful" parents, 2 July 1526
• Thomas Levett, monk 1511–38, Battle Abbey, Battle, Sussex, pensioned at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1538
• Thomas Levett, High Sheriff of Rutland 1639, Judge of the Admiralty for the Northern Counties, antiquarian, Tixover, Rutland
• Rev. Thomas Levett, rector of Whittington, Staffordshire for 40 years, owner of Packington Hall

• Thomas Levett-Prinsep, son of Theophilus Levett of Wychnor Hall, heir to his uncle Thomas Prinsep, Old Etonian, High Sheriff of Derbyshire, resided at Croxall Hall, Derbyshire, took name of Prinsep on inheritance of his uncle's property, Justice of the Peace and landowner
• Thomas Levett-Prinsep, son of Thomas Levett-Prinsep of Croxall Hall, married granddaughter of Devon merchant and MP Arthur Howe Holdsworth, subsequently moved to Devon
• Walter de Livet, third mayor of Chester, England, 1246
• Walter Jesse Levett, b. 1879, Quarry Cottage, Speldhurst, Kent, Lance Corporal, Grenadier Guards, killed in action France, 1917
• William Levett, lord of the manor, Hooton Levitt, South Yorkshire, inherited patronage of Roche Abbey on marriage (ca. 1220) to Constantia, granddaughter of Richard FitzTurgis, co-founder of Roche with Richard de Busli
• William Levett, member of Knights Hospitallers, lord of the manor of Newlands Estate, Normanton, d. 1477, grandfather of Sir Thomas Gargrave, Speaker of the House of Commons
• Rev. William Levett, rector of Buxted, East Sussex, established the iron foundry industry in Sussex, d. 1554
• Rev. Dr. William Levett, principal, Magdalen College, Oxford, later Dean of Bristol, d. 1694
• William Levett, Esq., longtime courtier to King Charles I of England who accompanied the King to his execution and became embroiled in controversy over whether the King had penned the Eikon Basilike, father of Dr. Henry Levett
• William Levett, warden of the Drapers Company, London, served with fellow warden Grinling Gibbons 1704–05
• William Levett, Bodiam, Sussex, purchased manors of Owley and Palstre in Wittersham, Kent, from novelist Jane Austen's brother Edward, which Levett left to his daughters (d. 1842)
• William Howard Vincent "Hopper" Levett, Goudhurst, Kent, Kent and England cricketer
• Capt. William Swynnerton Byrd Levett, JP, DL, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Milford Hall, Staffordshire, landed proprietor, d. 1929