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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.

CRAUFURD, ALEXANDER; b.; adm. 24 Jan 1782; left Whitsun 1785. [Perhaps Alexander Craufurd, son of Alexander Craufurd, and Jane ---, bapt. Richmond, Surrey 24 Aug 1770 (IGI), and presumably a younger brother of John Craufurd (adm. 1780, qv)]. [note will Alexander Craufurd, Commissary General of Accounts to Forces at St. Domingo, proved PCC 15 Feb 1798]

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, GEORGE, son of Patrick George Craufurd, Herrings Place, Sussex, and Jean, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Donald Macdonald, 84th Foot; bapt. St. Anne, Soho 28 Nov 1778 (IGI); in school list 1795; d. unm. [note will George Craufurd, St. Marylebone, proved PCC 11 Apr 1811]

CRAUFURD, JOHN, son of Sir Alexander Craufurd, Bart. , and Jane, dau. of James Crockatt, Luxborough, Essex; bapt. Chigwell, Essex 23 Sep 1765; adm. 31 May 1780, having previously been at Harrow School; KS (Capt. , aged 15) 1781; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1783, scholar on Bishop Williams’ foundation 4 Nov 1783, matr. Mich. 1783; BA 1789; MA 1804; ordained deacon (London, lit. dim. from York) 8 Mar 1789, priest (York) 11 Oct 1789; Curate, Gamston, Notts. , and Domestic Chaplain to William, 4th Duke of Queensberry 1789; Vicar of Elvaston, Derbs. , from 2 Apr 1790; Vicar of Great Coates, Lincs. , 12 Nov 1792 - Jun 1796; Rector of Beelsby, Lincs. , 8 Dec 1800-03; Vicar of West Markham, Notts. , from 29 Nov 1803; d. at Barèges, France Apr 1806.

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.