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CROFT, SIR HERBERT ARCHER, BART., eldest son of Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, Bart., MP, and Georgiana Eliza Lucy, eldest dau. of Matthew Henry Marsh (qv); grandson of Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart. (qv); b. 5 Sep 1868; adm. (R) 12 Apr 1882; left Dec 1884; went to Australia 1887, sheep-farming; succ. father as 10th baronet 11 Feb 1902; enlisted as private in Herefordshire Regt., Aug. 1914, and raised company of 150 men within a week; 2nd Lieut., 1st batt., Herefordshire Regt. 2 Sep 1914, Lieut.; Capt., 12 Sep 1914; went out with British expeditionary force to Mediterranean Jul 1915; DL Herefordshire, JP (1896), High Sheriff 1911; m. 1st, 20 Jun 1892 Kathleen, second dau. of John Hare, Invercargill, New Zealand; m. 2nd, 3 Feb 1903 Katharine Agnes, eldest dau. of Joseph Charlton Parr DL, Grappenhall Heyes, Cheshire; killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli 10 Aug 1915.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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http://firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk/?p=640
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.