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CREWE, JOHN, 1ST BARON CREWE, eldest son of John Crewe MP, Crewe Hall, Cheshire, and Anne, dau. of Richard Shuttleworth MP, Gawthorpe, Lancs.; b. 27 Sep 1742; adm. Manchester GS 1754; at school under Markham (Steward Anniversary Dinners 1766, 1785); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Feb 1760; Grand Tour (Italy) 1761-2; High Sheriff, Cheshire 1764; MP Stafford 4 Mar 1765-8, Cheshire 1768-1802; Lieut. -Col., Cheshire Militia 25 Mar 1778; a personal friend and political supporter of Charles James Fox; created Baron Crewe 25 Feb 1806; member, Society of Dilettanti, from 1764; m. 4 Apr 1766 Frances Anne, Whig political hostess and the “Amoret” of Fox’s well-known poem, sister of Henry Francis Greville (qv); d. 28 Apr 1829. DNB.

CROSSE, SIR JOHN, BART., second but only surviving son of Sir Thomas Crosse, Bart. (qv); b.; adm. (aged 14) 10 Jan 1714/5; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1716/7, aged 16; MP Wotton Basset 1727-34, Lostwithiel 19 May 1735-47, Westminster 1754-61; succ. father as 2nd baronet 27 May 1738; m. 15 Jul 1746 Mary Godfrey, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; d. 12 Mar 1762.

CROSSE, SIR THOMAS, BART., eldest son of Thomas Crosse, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Mary, sister of John Lockwood; b. 29 Nov 1663; at school under Busby (memorial tablet in St. Margaret’s, Westminster); MP Westminster 1701, 1702-5, 1710-22; created baronet 11 Jul 1713; dir., South Sea Co. 1721-4; gave £50 towards building of College Dormitory; m. Jane, dau. of Patrick Lambe, Stoke Poges, Bucks.; d. 27 May 1738.

CROWLE, CHARLES JOHN, only [eldest ?] son of Richard Crowle MP, Hull, Yorks., barrister and Bencher Inner Temple, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Pearman, London, timber merchant; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1748/9 (Burges'); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jul 1757, matr. Lent 1758; adm. Inner Temple 13 Jun 1755; Grand Tour (in Italy 1761-2); MP Richmond 26 May 1769-74; member Society of Dilettanti 1764, Secretary 1774-8; d. 7 Mar 1811.

CURTEIS, EDWARD BARRETT, second son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv); b. 25 Jul 1804; adm. 3 Feb 1815 (Packharness'); shot snipe in osier beds close to the Willow Walk, in the Long Meadow, and in the osiers of the Chelsea Waterworks at Battersea; master of a pack of beagles, kept in the kitchen of 1 Vincent Square, which hunted in Battersea Fields (Elizabethan ii, 130); left 1821; Ensign, 33rd Foot 5 Dec 1822; Lieut., 1st Royal Dragoons 4 Aug 1825; Capt., 7th Dragoon Guards 12 Apr 1827; Maj., 17 Oct 1834; sold out 8 Jul 1836; MP Rye 1832-7; author, Exposure of the corrupt system of elections at Rye, 1853; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1837 Charlotte Lydia, youngest dau. of Thomas Law Hodges MP, Hempstead Park, Kent; m. 2nd, 15 Sep 1841 Frances, eldest dau. of William Kenrick MP, Broome Park, Surrey; d. 14 Dec 1879.

CURTEIS, EDWARD JEREMIAH, only son of Jeremiah Curteis, Tenterden, Kent, and Rye, Sussex, attorney and banker, Town Clerk of Rye, and Jane, dau. of Searles Giles, Biddenden, Kent; b. 6 Jul 1762; adm. 29 Jan 1776; left 17 Jul 1779; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1779; BA 1783; MA 1787; Fellow, Oriel Coll. Oxford 1784-9; adm. Inner Temple year 1777/8, called to bar 1788; MP Sussex 1820-30; partner, Curteis & Co, Rye, Sussex, bankers, to 1811; George Colman’s “honest, openhearted quondam friend Jerry Curteis, as we familiarly called him at Westminster and at Oxford” (Colman, Random Records, I, 305); m. 14 Apr 1789 Mary, only dau. of Rev. Stephen Barrett, Rector of Hothfield, Kent; d. 18 Mar 1835.

CURTEIS, HERBERT BARRETT, eldest son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv); b. 19 Jun 1793; adm. 1805; KS 1807; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1812, matr. 9 May 1812, Westminster Student; BA 1815; MA 1820; MP Sussex 1830-2, East Sussex 1832-7, Rye from 1841; m. 29 Jun 1821 his cousin Caroline Sarah, sister of Robert Curteis Mascall (qv); d. 13 Dec 1847.

CURTEIS, HERBERT MASCALL, only son of Herbert Barrett Curteis (qv); b. 8 Jan 1824; adm. (Benthall's|Grant's) 1 Jun 1836; left Aug 1840; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1840; played cricket for Oxford University 1841, 1842 and for Sussex 1846-60; MP Rye Dec 1847- Mar 1848 (unseated), Apr 1848-52; Master, East Sussex Foxhounds 1854-68; President, Sussex County Cricket Club 1869-78; m. 15 Jun 1848 Paulina, sister of Sir Godfrey John Thomas, Bart. (qv); d. 16 Jun 1895.

CURZON, ASSHETON, 1ST VISCOUNT CURZON, brother of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv); b. 2 Feb 1729/30; adm. Mar 1739/40 (Watts'); left 1746; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Feb 1746/7; DCL 2 Jul 1754; MP Clitheroe 1754-80, 27 Feb 1792 - 13 Aug 1794; created Baron Curzon 13 Aug 1794 and Viscount Curzon 27 Feb 1802; DL Staffordshire 1796; m. 1st, 21 Feb 1756 Esther, dau. of William Hanmer, Hanmer, Flintshire; m. 2nd, 6 Feb 1766, Dorothy, sister of Thomas Grosvenor (adm. 1749, qv); m. 3rd, 17 Apr 1777 Anna Margaretta, widow of Barlow Trecothick MP, Alderman of London, and sister of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv); d. 21 Mar 1820.

CURZON, NATHANIEL, 1ST BARON SCARSDALE, second son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, Bart., MP, and Mary, dau. of Sir Richard Assheton, Bart., MP; b. 23 Dec 1726; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1739/40 (Watts'); carved his name on the Coronation Chair in the Abbey; left 1744; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Feb 1744/5; DCL 14 Apr 1749; Grand Tour; MP Clitheroe 2 Feb 1748-54, Derbyshire 1754-61; succeeded father as 5th baronet 18 Nov 1758; created Baron Scarsdale 9 Apr 1761; Chairman of Committees, House of Lords; m. 27 Oct 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear, eldest dau. of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (S) KT; d. 5 Dec 1804. DNB Missing Persons.