CRANSTOUN, JAMES EDMUND, 9TH BARON CRANSTOUN (S), son of Hon. Charles Cranstoun, Creeling Castle, Midlothian, and Elizabeth Turner, Worcestershire, and nephew of Hon. George Cranstoun (qv); b.; succ. his uncle James as 9th Baron Cranstoun (S) 22 Sep 1796; at school 1796; in school lists 1797, 1801; played cricket against Eton at Lords’ 31 Jul 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1802, aged 18; m. 25 Aug 1807 Anne Linnington, eldest dau. of John Macnamara, St. Kitts, West Indies; d. at St. Kitts 5 Sep 1818.
CRAUFURD, D. E.; b.; in school list May 1803; left 1805. [Perhaps Donald Craufurd, bapt. St. Anne, Soho 9 May 1788 (IGI), a younger brother of George Craufurd and John Craufurd (in school list 1795, qvv); 1st Lieut., Royal Artillery 2 Nov 1805, subsequently Capt.; wounded at battle of Waterloo; subscriber to Edward Smedley (q. v. )’s Erin, A Poem; d. unm. Oct 1819]
CRAUFURD, JOHN, brother of George Craufurd (qv); b. 4 Jan 1780; in school list 1795; succeeded to Auchinames estate, Ayrshire, on death of his cousin in 1814; DL JP Ayrshire; Secretary to Senate of Ionian Islands; m. 16 Aug 1814 Sophia Marianna, dau. of Maj. -Gen. Horatio Churchill MP; d. 28 Apr 1867.
CRAWFORD, ROBERT, son of Henry Crawford, Upper Seymour Street, London, and Gunnersbury House, Middlesex, previously EICS Madras, and Elizabeth, dau. of Kingsford Venner; b.; at school Midsummer 1801 (Glover); still at school Mich. 1806 (payments of his school bills at Mrs. Glover’s 1801-6 recorded in his father’s cash book (G. E. R. G. Brown, ed., Extracts from the Cash-Book of Henry Crawford, H. E. I. C. S., 1907)); afterwards at private sch. kept by Abbé de Rouvigny; of Chelsfield Court, Chelsfield, Kent; m. 23 Oct 1811 Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Elvy, Harbledown, Kent, d. 27 Aug 1860.
CRAWFORD, WILLIAM, only son of William Crawford, Newington, Surrey, and his first wife Sarah ---; b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1762; Capt. of the School 1767; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1768, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1768, scholar 21 Apr 1769, matr. Lent 1769; BA 1772; MA 1775; DD 1801; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Sep 1773, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1775; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1773, priest 25 Apr 1775 (both London); Curate, Newington Butts, Surrey, 1785; Rector of Blethvaugh, Radnorshire, 1788-93; Archdeacon of Carmarthen from 11 Aug 1793; Rector of Trottescliffe, Kent, from 1794 and of Milton, Kent, from 1797; m. 1 Jan 1778 Susanna Weston, Newington, Surrey; d. 14 Apr 1827.
Crawshaw, Ralph Dunford, son of Peter Hiram Crawshaw, of Scarborough, Yorks, by Jeanne Charlotte, daughter of Col. Francis Mountjoy Mostyn, 2nd Life Guards, of London; b. Nov. 24, 1880; adm. Jan. 18, 1894 (A); left April 1897; employed in the Foreign Office during Great War I; a member of the Prime Minister's staff at the Peace Conference at Paris 1919; m. Feb. 2, 1901, Constance Lucy, daughter of Thomas Brooks, of East Barnet, Herts; d. March 1, 1951.
CRESSWELL, HENRY WHITFIELD, son of Richard Cheslyn Cresswell, Joint Deputy Registrar Prerogative Court of Canterbury and a proctor, Court of Arches, and Mary Whitfield (IGI); b.; in school list 1803; left 1810; adm. proctor, Court of Arches 1819; practised in Godliman Street, Doctors’ Commons, London; d. 17 Feb 1828.
CRESWELL, ---; b.; in school list 1797.
CRESWELL, ROBERT; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1631, adm. scholar 1631, matr. Easter 1632; 3rd in “ordo” 1635/6; BA 1635/6; MA 1639 (incorp. Oxford 12 Jul 1653); Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1637-44, ejected; Usher at Aldenham School, Herts., Head Master 1646-9; took the Engagement 12 Oct 1650; Vicar of Ruislip, Middlesex 1650 [no longer 1661]; admon. PCC 1659. .
Creswick, Maurice de Jersey, son of James Paul Creswick, of Shortlands, Kent, by Maude Lavinia, daughter of George Morris, of Keynsham, Somerset; b. May 3, 1894; adm. Jan. 14, 1909 (H); left July 1911; a journalist; temp. 2nd Lieut. in the Buffs Jan. 21, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; served ten months in France, where he was wounded three times, and also in Mesopotamia, India, and the Afghan War; demob. Sept. 1919; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Oct. 1, 1940; transferred to R.A.F. Regt. Feb. 1, 1942; returned to A. and S. D. Oct. 15, 1942; Flight.-Lieut.