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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.

CRAVEN, ---; b.; in school list Jun 1764; left Dec 1764.

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.

CRAWLEY, CHARLES HENRY, second son of Rev. Robert Townsend Crawley, Rector of North Ockendon, Essex, and Louisa Marianne, dau. of Rev. James Charles Clutterbuck, Rector of Long Wittenham, Berks.; b. 7 Jul 1859; adm. 30 May 1872 (James'); left May 1877; an accountant; became Secretary to Lord Burton at Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs.; m. 12 Dec 1888 Mathilde Louise Genevieve, dau. of J. C. Lefebvre, Boulogne, France; d. 1 Sep 1914.

CRAWLEY, RICHARD, second son of Rev. Richard Crawley, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and of St. Mildred Poultry, London, and Mary, dau. of Owen Clutton, Greenwich, Kent; b. 31 May 1791; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1806; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1810, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1810, scholar 1811, matr. Mich. 1810; BA 1814; migr. to Magdalene Coll. Dec 1814; MA 1817; Fellow and Tutor, Magdalene Coll.; Proctor 1823-4; ordained deacon 19 Mar 1815, priest 29 Sep 1816 (both Ely); Vicar of Steeple Ashton cum Semington, Wilts., from 12 Jun 1828; Prebendary of Salisbury from 25 Feb 1843; d. unm. 9 Dec 1869.

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.

Craze, Peter Dermot, son of Michael Romilly Craze, schoolmaster, of Felsted, Essex, and Carol Mary, d. of Rev. Alan Hugh McNeile DD, Regius Prof. of Divinity, Trin. Coll. Dublin; b. 4 Dec. 1946; adm. Sept. 1960 (G); left July 1965; Hertford Coll. Oxf., matric. 1965, BA 1968, MA 1975; asst. master Repton Sch. 1969-71, King’s Sch. Ely 1971-5, Manchester GS 1975-83; Headmaster Durston House Sch. Ealing 1983-2004; m. July 1971 Gabrielle-Anne, d. of Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS, Vice-Chancellor Univ. of Sussex; d. 11 Nov. 2004.

CREAKE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Creake, Chelsea, Middlesex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Talbot DCL, Gunvill’s Hall, Norfolk; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1629; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, 224).

Creedy, John Madoc, son of David Luther Creedy, airline exec., of Willesden, and Eluned Maddock, head of English dept. Godolphin and Latymer Upper Sch., d. of William Howell Maddock, headmaster, of Caerau, Glamorgan; b. 24 July 1953; adm. Sept. 1966 (R); left July 1971; Univ. of W. Indies Jamaica 1972-3; KCL 1973-4; Central Lond. Poly. 1979-82, BA; film producer and documentary dir., film and theatre critic; winner Sony National Student film festival 1982; d. 1994.