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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.

CRAGGE, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1618, Westminster Student to 1623; BA 22 Feb 1622/3; ordained; Perpetual Curate, Badsey, Worcs. 1645-61; Perpetual Curate, South and Middle Littleton, Worcs., from c. 1661; lic. to m. Jan 1631/2 Anne Bingham, St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, spinster; d. 1666.

CRAIG, JAMES, brother of Philip Craig (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 21 May 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jul 1732; Min. Can. 1737; KS 1738; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 13 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 - void 30 Jun 1750; BA 1746; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 26 Feb 1746/7; Lieut., 23 Dec 1752; Capt. -Lieut., 23 Sep 1763; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. 23 Dec 1763; retd. 15 May 1767; living 1769.

CRAKE, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 140).

CRAMER, HENRY ELLIS, eldest son of John Anthony Cramer (qv); b. 2 Apr 1824; adm. (G) 27 Sep 1836; KS 1837; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1841, matr. 26 May 1841, Westminster Student to 1854; BA 1845; MA 1847.

CRAMER, JOHN ANTHONY, son of John Anthony Cramer, Mittoden, Switzerland, and Henrietta Courtet; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1807; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1811, matr. 28 May 1811, Westminster Student, Tutor; 1st cl., Classics and Mathematics, 1814; BA 1814; MA 1817; BD 1830; DD 1831; ordained; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1822-45; Vice-Principal, St. Alban Hall, Oxford 1823-5; Select Preacher 1826, 1831; Public Orator 1829-42; Principal, New Inn Hall (which he rebuilt) 1831-47; Regius Professor of Modern History from 1842; Dean of Carlisle from 21 Dec 1844; author, A Description of Ancient Italy, 1826, and other works; m. 27 May 1823 (IGI) Henrietta [or Harriet ?] Ashton; d. 24 Aug 1848. DNB.

CRAMER, LEWIS ANTHONY, second son of John Anthony Cramer (qv); b. 31 Dec 1826; adm. (G) 13 Jun 1838; QS 1840; rowed against Eton 1843; left 1844; New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr. 25 May 1844; BA 1848; went into the Austrian service; d. at Belgrade 28 Jun 1855.

Crane, Frank Leslie, son of Arthur George Crane, of Singapore, by Edith Ellen, daughter of Thomas Farrow, of Bury St. Edmunds; b. Aug. 23, 1901; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1915; left March 1918; a company director; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Sept. 23, 1940; Acting Sqdn. Ldr.; m. June 25, 1938, Marguerite, daughter of Walter Eswin Austing, of Brighton; d. 10 Feb. 1982.

CRANE, ROBERT, brother of William Crane (elected Trin. Coll. Camb. 1627, qv); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1632, adm. scholar 1633; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; LLD 1660; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1637, Tutor 1639; ejected from his fellowship by the Parliamentary Visitors 1645, but restored 1660; Junior Bursar 1660-3, Senior Fellow 1665, Senior Bursar 1668-71; d. 16 Feb 1672, aged 60.

CRANE, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17) 1576, Westminster Student 18 Jun 1577 - 1587/8; BA 26 Jan 1579/80; MA 6 Feb 1582/3 (incorp. Cambridge 1584); ordained; Rector of South Cadbury, Somerset, from 2 Dec 1587; m.; buried South Cadbury 2 Jun 1608.