Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet

Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet JP ( Hurt; September 1769 – 14 July 1811) was a British politician and landowner.

Early life Born as Sitwell Hurt in September 1769, he was the eldest son of Mary ( Warneford) Hurt and Francis Hurt (1728–1793) of Mount Pleasant, Sheffield, who changed his surname to Sitwell in 1777, when he inherited the Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire estates of his mother's cousin. and sister, Mary Sitwell, who married Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet (after Mary's death, Sir William married Jenny Gambier, daughter of Vice-Admiral James Gambier). Sitwell was a great-great grandson of ironmaster George Sitwell, "who first put the Sitwell family on the map."

He was Member of Parliament for West Looe from 1796 to 1802. He also was a Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire.

From 4 February 1807 to 24 February 1808, he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire before he was created 1st Baronet Sitwell, of Renishaw in the County of Derby, on 3 October 1808.

Mary Alice Sitwell (–1816), who married her cousin, Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet, son of Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet and Mary Sitwell, in 1815. After her death, he married his sister-in-law's sister, Charlotte Tait, daughter of Craufurd Tait, in 1822. Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet (1797–1853), who married Susan Murray Tait, a daughter of Crauford Tait and Susan ( Campbell) Tait (a daughter of Ilay Campbell, Lord Succoth), in 1818. and Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet (1897–1988).