[Illustration] This family was originally of Chesterton in
Warwickshire, where it is traced as early as the reigns of Henry I.
and II.
In right of Elianor, daughter and heir to William Grober, descended
from Richard de Rushall, of Rushall, in Staffordshire, the Harpurs
were afterwards seated at that place, but had no connection with
Derbyshire till the reign of Elizabeth. Calke was purchased by Henry
Harpur, Esq. in 1621.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd ed, vol. i. 478; Shaw's History of
Staffordshire, ii. 69; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 1; Lysons,
lxiii.
ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant within a border engrailed sable_.
This was the coat of Rushall; the arms of Harpur were a plain cross.
Present Representative, Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet.