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CRANE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Crane (qv); bapt. 19 Sep 1602; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451); Chapel Clerk, New Coll. Oxford Jan 1622-5, Chaplain 1625-7; BA 1625/6; MA 1628; Rector of Isle Abbotts, Somerset, 30 Nov 1637, sequestered.

CRANE, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Crane, Loughton, Bucks., Chief Clerk of Board of Green Cloth to James I and Charles I, and Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Tresham, Kt, Newton, Northants.; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1627, matr. Mich. 1627, adm. scholar 1628; BA 1631/2; MA 1635; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1633, Tutor 1635-9; m. 20 Oct 1636 Frances, dau. of William Bond, and niece of Sir Francis Crane, Woodrising, Norfolk; d. 2 Apr. 1673.

Cranfield, Leslie Elmore, son of Arthur Leslie Cranfield, dir. Daily News Ltd, editor The Star; and Mary Frances, d. of George Smyth, sculptor, of Dublin; b. 19 Oct. 1921; adm. Sept. 1935 (G); left July 1939; KOYLI 1940-5 (Maj.); called to the Bar (Middle Temple) Nov. 1954; m. 20 Dec. 1957 Margaret Hazel, d. of Alec Gordon Nicholson of Weybridge, Surrey; d. 4 Sept. 1962.

CRANFORD, J.; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1642; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114).

CRANSTON, EDWARD, son of John Cranston (qv); b. 11 Jan 1761; adm. 23 Feb 1770; in school list 1775; adm. Middle Temple 30 Jun 1775; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 Apr 1778; m. 22 Apr 1797 (IGI) Harriet Newland, Chichester, Sussex; d. 7 Jan 1841.

CRANSTON, JOHN, son of William Cranston, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, solicitor, and his first wife Mary Swaysland; bapt. St. Bride’s, Fleet Street 3 Dec 1736 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1750/1 (Watts'); in school list 1752; adm. solicitor 30 Nov 1759; practised in London; retired after a few years to East Grinstead, Sussex, where he built East Court and in 1767 became Assist. Warden, Sackville College; m. 8 Nov 1759 (IGI) Catherine Green, East Court, East Grinstead, Sussex; d. 26 Mar 1781.

CRANSTOUN, HON. GEORGE, fifth son of James Cranstoun, 6th Baron Cranstoun (S), and Sophia, dau. of Jeremiah Brown, Abscourt, Surrey; bapt. 21 Dec 1761; adm. 6 Dec 1771; while at school he saved George Colman (adm. 1772, qv) from drowning, while bathing in the Thames just opposite Dicky Roberts’s boathouse; left 1777; Ensign, 25th Foot 25 Dec 1778; Lieut., Independent Co. of Foot, 27 Mar 1781; Capt. 21 Aug 1782; Brevet Maj. 1 Mar 1794; Capt., 131st Foot 22 Apr 1795, 60th Foot 13 May 1795; Maj., 4th West Indian Regt., 19 Sep 1795; Lieut. -Col., 1 Jun 1796; 64th Foot, 28 Aug 1801; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1805; wounded at capture of Surinam May 1804; d. unm. at Surinam 8 Mar 1806.

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.

Cratford, Edward (or Cratforde). Born Shropshire 1521 ; one of the scholars in receipt of an exhibition at Oxford Univ. from the Dean and Chapter of Worcester 1543-4 (A.F.Leach, Early Education in Worcester, 160) ; BA Oxford, adm. 2 Oct 1540, determined 1541, MA 9 Feb 1545; All Souls Coll.Oxford, Fellow, adm.1540, Arts Dean 1545-6, vacated 1547 ; migr. to Christ Church, Oxford, Student (theologus) 1547, vacated by Sep 1557, with interval Oct 1552 – May 1554 ; supplicated for leave to lecture on Pauline epistles 1551-2 ; Under Master, Westminster School Mich.1552 – Easter 1554 ; by Act of Chapter 3 Dec 1552 “Patches House”, which stood near the entrance to the Dark Cloister, was allotted to him as a residence “untyll sotche tyme as the said Edward Cratford shall be otherwyse well provided for” ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1554 (London), priest 22 Dec 1554 (Bishop of Sidon at Oxford) ; Chaplain to Philip and Mary 6 Sep 1555 ; Vicar of North Petherton, Somerset, vacated by Jan 1558 ; Rector of Lydeard St.Lawrence, Somerset, deprived by Jan 1560 ; Canon and Prebendary of Wells, deprived 1560 ; said to have gone abroad ; presumably “Crockford” who occurs in a list of Catholic fugitives dated 29 Jan 1576 ; d. abroad, apparently in Spain, before 1588.