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CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MORDAUNT, son of Col. Mordaunt Cracherode, Governor of Minorca, of Taplow, Bucks., and Mary, sister of Charles Morice (qv); b. 23 Jun 1730; adm. Jun 1737; KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1746; BA 1750; MA 1753; ordained priest (Oxford) 25 May 1755; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1762; did not seek or obtain further religious preferment; spent his life in collecting books, engravings, gems and coins, bequeathed by him to the British Museum; Trustee, British Museum, from 1784; FRS 15 Dec 1785; FSA 8 Mar 1787; member Society of Dilettanti from 1787; left legacies of £1000 each to Christ Church, Oxford, and to the School; d. unm. 5 Apr 1799. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

By his will dated 9 Apr 1792 (proved 17 Apr 1799), he bequeathed to Westminster School “the sum of £500, the interest to be divided as is done in the case of a benefaction left by my excellent friend Fane Sharpe, Esq. about the year 1771 for the advantage of the King’s Scholars elected to the two Universitities, the management to be under the same trustees”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Cracherode exhibition.

CRACHERODE, EDWARD, son of Mordaunt Cracherode, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, linen draper, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bullock, Faulkbourne, Essex; bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 20 May 1689; at school under Knipe (Alum. Cantab., pt. i, vol. i); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 24 Jun 1707, aged 18, matr. 1708; BA 1710/1; ordained deacon (London) 27 May 1711.

Cracknell, Charles George Raphael, only son of Charles Collins, of Pimlico, by Annie Letitia, daughter of George Turner, of London; b. May 5, 1888; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (G); assumed the surname of Cracknell in lieu of Collins by deed poll June 21, 1915, but was known by the name of Cracknell before leaving school; left Easter 1906; articled to a London firm of accountants; joined the H. A. C. on the outbreak of the war Aug. 4, 1914; went out to the western front with the 1st Batt. Sept. 17, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 24th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. July 3, 1915; Lieut. Nov. 3, 1915; served in France 1914-7; joined the British Expeditionary Force to Palestine in Oct. 1917; d. at Tel-el-Brit. Dec. 29, 1917, of wounds received in the defence of Jerusalem, Dec. 27, 1917; unm.

CRACROFT, WALTER SEWELL, brother of William Cracroft (qv); b. 1795; in school list 1803; left 1810; entered Royal Navy; Writer, EICS Prince of Wales Island 1813; Secretary to Government there 1817-28, member of Council 3 Dec 1828-31, ret.; m. 1st, Princess Amoy, a Malay; 2nd, 22 Oct. 1829 his cousin Jane, only dau. of Edmund Cracroft; drowned by jumping off the Havre packet while crossing the Channel 21 Mar 1865.

CRACROFT, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cracroft, North Street, Westminster, Chief Clerk, Exchequer Office, and Elizabeth, eldest sister of Jeremiah Hawkes (qv); b. 15 Sep 1787; in school lists 1797, 1801; Writer, EICS Bengal 1801; arrived in India 5 Sep 1803; Registrar, Shahabad 1805; held numerous official posts in Bengal, in 1829 becoming Judge of Provisional Court of Appeal (Civil Cases), Dacca; Officiating Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit, Dacca 1833; Acting Commissioner and Civil and Sessions Judge, Dacca; Officiating Civil and Sessions Judge, 24 Parganas 1837; Officiating Special Commissioner, Murshidabad 1838; retd. 1 May 1839; d. unm. at Naples 3 Apr 1846.

CRADDOCK, CHRISTOPHER, son of Capt. Christopher Craddock, EI Maritime Service, and Florentia Charleton; bapt. Madras 14 Mar 1709/10; adm. (aged 7) Feb 1716/7; in under school list 1723; supercargo, EICS Madras; living at Madras 1740; m. 24 May 1736 Grace, dau. of Thomas Cooke, EICS Madras.

CRADOCK, NORRIS, son of Norris Cradock, Loughborough, Leics., solicitor, Steward of the Court of Record, Leicester, and Mary Palmer; bapt. All Saints, Loughborough, Leics. 16 Oct 1723 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jun 1735; left 1740; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Jan 1740/1; adm. Inner Temple 5 Dec 1739, called to bar 3 Jul 1747, chambers there 1748-67; one of the purveyors and granitors of the Royal Stables 1761; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Jarvis, Markfield, Leics.; d. 24 Mar 1779.

CRADOCK, SHELDON, only son of William Cradock, Gilling West, Yorkshire North Riding, and Mary, dau. of Gilbert Sheldon, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1728; left 1733; adm. Middle Temple 28 Jun 1737; m. 1st, c. 1739 Elizabeth, sister of Marwood Place (qv); m. 2nd, c. 1745 Sarah Moseley, widow, dau. of --- Williamson, Follyfoot; buried Gainford, Yorks., 13 Mar 1752.

CRADOCK, THALES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1742/3; left 1744.

CRADOCK, WILLIAM; b.; at school under Busby; BB 1650-1 (Chapter Muniments 43304).