Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Baronet (14 October 1846 – 13 December 1924) was a British baronet (see Harpur Baronets) known for his eccentricity and his natural history collections which he maintained at his home in the 1000 acre estate of Calke Abbey. He was named after an ancestor Sir Edmund Vauncey. Biography Harpur Crewe was born in the family home of Calke Abbey to John Harpur (ninth baronet) and his cousin Georgiana Crewe. Like most wealthy people of the period, he was privately tutored and travelled widely even in his younger days. A marriage was planned in 1868 between him and Mary Clara, daughter of Evelyn Philip Shirley but this did not happen and he married Isabel, daughter of Charles Adderley, 1st Baron Norton in 1876. The couple chose to live separately although they had four daughters and a son together: Frances Caroline Julia Harpur Crewe Hilda Ethelfreda Harpur Crewe Winifred Isabel Harpur Crewe Airmyne Catherine Harpur Crewe Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (5 April 1880 - 14 June 1921) Harpur Crewe served as a deputy lieutenant for Staffordshire in 1871 and was a High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1900 but he largely stayed away from the public eye and spent time on amassing his natural history collections. He was seen as something of an altruistic monocrat, mixing great thoughtfulness and generosity towards his tenants and employees at his two seats – Calke Abbey in Derbyshire and Warslow-Longnor in Staffordshire – with aloofness and arbitrary behaviour towards his own family. His wife complained about the management of fires inside the estate. He insisted that fires be burnt at morning, noon and night to ensure the safety of his specimens. Failure to manage these fires would lead to the dismissal of servants via a message sent through a footman. He routinely went on collecting trips with his head gamekeeper Agathos Pegg. While out collecting on Repton Park, he once met his cousin John Harpur with whom he had a poor relationship and they had an altercation, following which Harpur Crewe had Repton Park burned down. When he found his daughter Airmyne smoking, she was sent off from Calke Abbey. Harpur Crewe put together a large collection of stuffed birds, bird's eggs and Lepidoptera. His collection included birds shot by himself, and rare or abnormally coloured specimens bought from dealers and taxidermists. He was considered gullible and many of the specimens he