Background
Levett was married to the daughter of English diplomat and ambassador Sir Harry Smith Parkes. Egerton Levett was the son of Colonel Richard Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Staffordshire and his wife Elizabeth Mary (Mirehouse) Levett.
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He was later promoted to Captain, and following his retirement became Bursar of Keble College, Oxford University. Egerton Levett entered the service of the Royal Navy, where during a posting as aide to Admiral Willes in 1884, he met Mabel Desborough Parkes, the daughter of Ambassador Parkes, who was then serving as British ambassador to China and of Korea. The property, which was the only Cistercian abbey in East Anglia, had been in the Scrivener family since its purchase in the early seventeenth century by John Scrivener, son of an Ipswich barrister and bailiff grown rich in the wool trade.
The Scrivener family later purchased 20,000 acres (81 km2) from the Duke of Norfolk to add to their Suffolk holdings.
After inheriting Sibton Abbey, Egerton Levett changed his name to Levett-Scrivener in accordance with his aunt"s wishes. The Levett-Scriveners, and most of their Scrivener relatives, are buried at Saint Peter"s Church in Sibton, near Yoxford, Suffolk.
Among the descendants of Egerton Levett-Scrivener is a branch of the Joly de Lotbiniere family of East Anglia. In 2005, the Levett-Scrivener family felt compelled to purchase the local village post office and shop facing closure in this quiet corner of rural England.
