Biography

Greaves was the son of another Joseph Greaves from Ingleby

Ingleby, Derbyshire

Ingleby is a hamlet and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England. Situated on the south of the River Trent on a rise between Stanton by Bridge and Repton, Ingleby contains the privately owned John Thompson public house and the Ingleby Art Gallery....

 and Foremark

Foremark

Foremark is a small manor and hamlet with a ruling Lord's country house - Foremarke Hall - in southern Derbyshire, England.-Location:...

 who has bought purchased land in Aston-on-Trent

Aston-on-Trent

Aston-on-Trent is a Derbyshire village, situated in the English East Midlands, near Derby. It is adjacent to Weston-on-Trent and is near to Chellaston. It is very close to the border with Leicestershire....

 in Derbyshire. It was his father who had commissioned the building of Aston Lodge. This -storey building stood in its own grounds behind wrought iron gates by the ironsmith Robert Bakewell

Robert Bakewell (ironsmith)

Robert Bakewell was an English smith. He took an apprenticeship in London as an iron worker and became an extremely skilled ironsmith.In 1706, he started working at Melbourne Hall for Thomas Coke, and living in the town of Melbourne...

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When Greaves' father died in 1749 he inherited the large five-by-three-bay house which was then less than twenty years old. Greaves married Ann Boothby from Ashbourne, the sister of Sir Brook Boothby

Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet

Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was an English linguist, translator, minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. He welcomed Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles in 1766 when the...

. Greaves was a High Sheriff of Derbyshire

High Sheriff of Derbyshire

This is a list of High Sheriffs of Derbyshire from 1568.The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been...

in 1765.

On his death he left his lands to his wife Ann.