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| First Name |
William
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| Last Name |
Levett
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1494
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| Birthplace |
The Grove, Hollington, East Sussex, England
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| Died |
1554
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| Place of Death |
Buxted, East Sussex, England
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| Buried |
St Margaret the Queen Church, Buxted, East Sussex, England
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
priest; cannon founder
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| Occupation |
Business
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William Levett (ca. 1495 – 1554) was an English clergyman. An Oxford-educated country rector, he was a pivotal figure in the use of the blast furnace to manufacture iron. With the patronage of the English Crown, furnaces in Sussex under Levett's ownership cast the first iron muzzle-loader cannons in England in 1543, a development which enabled England to ultimately reconfigure the global balance-of-power by becoming an ascendant naval force. William Levett continued to perform his ministerial duties while building an early munitions empire, and left the riches he accumulated to a wide variety of charities at his death.
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