still in family hands, and shared them with historians. Levett-Scrivener tracked the produce grown on the farms, the cost of labor and the rentals accruing to the Scrivener owners. He also opened the Abbey periodically to county historians and antiquarians so they could investigate the ruins of the once-wealthy abbey, which had fallen during the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Howard family. Royal Navy Captain Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener died in 1954. He was survived by one son from his first marriage and three daughters from his second marriage, Iris, Winnifred and Pamela. The Levett-Scrivener family has longstanding ties to the Royal Navy. Egerton Levett-Scrivener's son Evelyn Harry Byrd, also joined the Royal Navy, where he rose to the rank of Commander and predeceased his father on 22 August 1950. He had two full siblings, Egerton Alaric Parkes Levett-Scrivener, named in part for his grandfather Parkes, and a sister Dorothy who died in infancy, and the three were baptized at the Berkswich, Staffordshire, church where their father Levett-Scrivener worshipped as a child. The Levett-Scriveners, and most of their Scrivener relatives, are buried at St. Peter's Church in Sibton, near Yoxford, Suffolk. 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. Royal Navy Captain Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener's great-great grandfather, John Freston Scrivener, was a cousin of Horatio Nelson, source The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe by M. Eyre Matcham published by The Bodley Head, 1911. Amusingly amongst the ancestors of this generation of the levett-scrivener family is another Royal Navy stalwart, Admiral William Bligh, captain of the ill-fated HMS Bounty during its mutiny. References Sources The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese Levett Haszard, Milford, Staffordshire, privately printed 1857 births 1954 deaths Egerton English farmers People from the Borough of Stafford People from Suffolk Coastal (district) Fellows of Keble College, Oxford Royal Navy officers