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COX, John Lewis. Head of the firm of Cox and Sons (afterwards Cox and Wyman) printers to the H.E.I. Co. Great Queen st. London; master of Stationer’s Co. 1849–50. d. Ham Common near London 1 Feb. 1856 aged 79.

COX, Robert (3 son of Robert Cox of Georgie Mills, co. Edinburgh, leather-dresser). b. Georgie 25 Feb. 1810; ed. at high sch. and Univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet 1832; sec. of a literary institution at Liverpool 1835–39; edited Phrenological Journal, numbers xxxiv to l of the first series and 1841–47; compiled index to the 22 vols. of Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 ed. 1842; author of Sabbath laws and Sabbath duties 1853; The literature of the Sabbath question 2 vols. 1865; bequeathed his collection of books on the Sabbath question to Advocates’ library, Edin. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1872.

COX, Talbot Ashley. b. 9 July 1836; ensign 3 foot 29 July 1853, lieut. col. 12 July 1871 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Cawnpore 9 Dec. 1877.

COX, William. Second lieut. 95 foot 6 June 1805; major 75 foot 20 June 1834 to 1 July 1843 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 13 Jany. 1857.

COX, Sir William (3 son of John Cox of Coolcliffe, co. Wexford 1749–93). b. Coolcliffe 5 Dec. 1776; ensign 68 foot 1 Oct. 1794; commanded fortress of Almeida, April 1809 to 27 Aug. 1810 when its magazine having exploded he surrendered; lieut. col. Portugese army 16 Feb. 1809 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; K.T.S. 28 Aug. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13 Aug. 1816; colonel in British army 12 Aug. 1819; sheriff of King’s County 1825. d. Longford place, Monkstown, co. Dublin 1 July 1864.

COX, William James (2 son of Philip Cox 1779–1841, proprietor of the Royal tennis court, James st. Haymarket, London). b. 2 Feb. 1806; part proprietor of the Royal tennis court many years; champion of England at game of tennis. d. Brantford, Canada West 30 June 1864. J. Marshall’s Annals of tennis (1878) 100–106.

COX, William Sands (eld. son of Edward Townsend Cox of Birmingham, surgeon 1769–1863). b. 38 Cannon st. Birmingham 1802; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843; started a medical and surgical class-room at Temple row, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1825; removed to an old chapel in Paradise st. 1830 which he named the School of Medicine, it was incorporated by royal charter as the Queen’s college 1843, principal of the college 1858–9; founded Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1840–1; F.R.S. 5 May 1836; member of French Institute; hon. member of nearly every important surgical school in Europe; author of A synopsis of the bones, ligaments and muscles, bloodvessels and nerves of the human body 1831; Annals of Queen’s college 4 vols. 1873. d. Woodside, Kenilworth 23 Dec. 1875. Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men i, 61–6 (1865), portrait, reprinted in Cox’s Annals iv, 155–60 (1873); E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 132–39.

COXE, Rev. Henry Octavius (8 son of Rev. Richard Coxe, V. of Bucklebury, Berkshire). b. Bucklebury 20 Sep. 1811; ed. at Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; entered manuscript department of British Museum, May 1833; C. of Culham 1839–48, of Tubney 1848–55 both near Oxford; sub-librarian of Bodleian library 16 Nov. 1838, librarian 6 Nov. 1860 to death, catalogue of 723 folio volumes was compiled 1859–80; select preacher to Univ. of Ox. 1842; Whitehall preacher 1868; chaplain of C.C. coll. Ox. 1847–74; lecturer at St. Martin’s, Carfax, Oxford 1852–59; C. of Wytham, Berks. 1861–68; R. of Wytham 1868 to death; presided at annual meeting of Library Association at Oxford 1 to 3 Oct. 1878, pres. of Association 25 Sep. 1879 to death; published Forms of bidding prayer 1840; Rogeri de Wendover Chronica 5 vols. (English Hist. Soc.) 1841–4; The Black Prince, an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald (Roxburghe club) 1842; Report on the Greek manuscripts yet remaining in libraries of the Levant 1858. d. St. Giles’s road, Oxford 8 July 1881. bur. at Wytham 12 July.

COXE, Sir James (4 son of Robert Coxe of Georgie, Midlothian). b. Georgie 1811; ed. at Gottingen, Heidelberg, Paris and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1835; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1837; wrote Report on management of the insane in Scotland 1855; paid comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to death, wrote first fifteen reports of the Commissioners; knighted by patent 10 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. Edin. d. Folkestone on returning from Paris 9 May 1878. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 15 (1880).

COXE, Ven. Richard Charles (brother of Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe 1811–81). Ed. at Reading gr. sch.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Nov. 1817 aged 17, scholar 1818, B. A. 1821, M.A. 1824; fellow of his coll. 1823–26; Inc. of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent St. London 1829–41; V. of Newcastle 1841–53; hon. canon of Durham 1843–58; archdeacon of Lindisfarne, March 1853 to death; V. of Eglingham, Northumberland, March 1853 to death; canon of Durham, Dec. 1857 to death; author of Lectures on the evidence from miracles 1832; The Mercy at Marsdon rocks 1844; Poems scriptural, classical and miscellaneous 1845; Leda Tanah the martyr’s child, Derwent Bank 1851. d. Eglingham vicarage 25 Aug. 1865.

COXETER, Elizabeth. b. Witney, Oxon. 1 Feb. 1775. d. Newbury, Berkshire 27 Nov. 1876 nearly 102 years of age. Notes and Queries 5 S. iii, 144 (1875), vi, 460 (1876).

COYNE, Frederick. Comic singer at principal music halls in London and the provinces 1867 to death; wrote the music to Tuner’s Oppertuner-ty, a song 1879. d. 8 Huntingdon st. Kingsland road, London 23 Feb. 1886 aged 39. bur. Abney park cemetery 27 Feb. Entr’acte 6 March 1886 p. 9, portrait.

COYNE, Joseph Stirling (son of Denis Coyne, port surveyor of Waterford). b. Birr, King’s county 1803; his first farce called The Phrenologist was produced at T.R. Dublin, June 1835; came to London 1836 where his farce The queer subject was produced at Adelphi theatre, Nov. 1836; author of upwards of 55 dramas, burlesques and farces produced chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket theatres; his drama called Everybody’s Friend was brought out at the Haymarket 2 April 1859 it was reproduced at St. James’s 16 Oct. 1867 as The Widow Hunt; contributed to the first number of Punch 17 July 1841; secretary to Dramatic authors’ society 1856 to death; dramatic critic on Sunday Times newspaper; author of Scenery and antiquities of Ireland 2 vols. 1842; Pippins and pies, or sketches out of school 1855; Sam Spangle or the history of a harlequin 1866. d. 61 Talbot road, Westbourne park, London 18 July 1868.

CRABB, George. b. Palgrave, Suffolk 8 Dec. 1778; classical master at Thorp-Arch school, Yorkshire; studied German at Bremen 1801–6; gentleman commoner at Magd. hall, Ox. 1814, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829; author of English synonyms explained, in alphabetical order 1816, 7 ed. 1844 after which the book was stereotyped; Universal technological dictionary 2 vols. 1823; Universal historical dictionary 2 vols. 1825; History of the English law 1829; Precedents in conveyancing 2 vols. 1835, 5 ed. 1859; Digest and index of all the statutes at large 4 vols. 1841–7; Law of real property 2 vols. 1846. d. Hammersmith 4 Dec. 1851.

CRABB, Rev. James (3 son of James Crabb of Wilton, Wiltshire, cloth manufacturer). b. Wilton 13 April 1774; joined the Wesleyans, Feb. 1791; kept a school at Romsey, and at Spring hill, Southampton; minister of Zion chapel, Lansdowne hill, Southampton, opened 9 June 1824; founded infant day schools at Kingsland Place, Southampton, the earliest in England; was popularly known as the Gipsy’s friend and was the missionary referred to in Rev. Legh Richmond’s Dairyman’s Daughter as having first brought her to a sense of religion; author of The Gipsies Advocate 1831, 3 ed. 1832; An address to Irvingites in which their heresy, modes of worship, etc. are set forth 1836. d. Springhill house, Southampton 17 Sep. 1851. Memoir of Rev. James Crabb by John Rudall 1854, portrait; G.M. xxxvi, 659–60 (1851).

CRABBE, Eyre John. Ensign 74 foot 11 June 1807, lieut.-col. 6 Nov. 1841 to 1 May 1846 when placed on retired full pay; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854; K.H. 1837. d. Highfield, Southampton 19 March 1859 aged 68.

CRABBE, Rev. George (eld. son of George Crabbe the poet 1754–1832). b. Stathern, Leics. 16 Nov. 1785; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; C. of Pucklechurch, Gloucs. 1817–34; V. of Bredfield and Pettistree, Suffolk 1834 to death; author of Life of George Crabbe 1838; Outlines of a system of natural theology 1840. d. Bredfield vicarage 16 Sep. 1857.

CRACE, Frederick (son of John Crace of London, architectural decorator 1754–1819). b. 3 June 1779; architectural decorator; employed on work at royal palaces, London, Brighton and Windsor; a comr. of Sewers; began to collect maps and views of London about 1818, his splendid collection was purchased by the British Museum from his son John Gregory Crace 1880, it consists of between five and six thousand prints and drawings arranged in a series of 57 portfolios, it is described in Catalogues of maps, plans and views of London collected and arranged by F. Crace edited by J. G. Crace 1878, a very large number of the illustrations in Thornbury and Walford’s Old and New London are derived from this collection. d. Vine cottage, Blyth lane, Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1859. The Little journal i, 136–42 (1884).

CRACKANTHORPE, William (son of Christopher Cookson who assumed name of Crackanthorpe, and d. 1800). b. 25 Feb. 1790; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; had an interview with Napoleon at Elba 25 Feb. 1815 the day before he escaped to France; sheriff of Cumberland 1826; chairman of Westmoreland poor law board 40 years; rebuilt parish church of Newbiggin and the rectory house at his own expense. d. Newbiggin hall, Westmoreland 10 Jany. 1888.

CRACKLOW, Henry. Ensign Bombay army 23 Dec. 1819; colonel 2 Bombay N.I. 1855–69; M.G. 22 Aug. 1855; general 28 March 1874; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Castle hill, Inverness 15 May 1886 in 83 year.

CRACROFT, Peter (2 son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorne, Lincs. 1783–1862). b. 15 March 1816; entered navy 4 June 1830, lost the Reynard on the Pratas shoal, China 1846; captain 20 Nov. 1854; commodore in charge at Jamaica 31 March 1863 to death; C.B. 7 Oct. 1862. d. Admiralty house, Port Royal, Jamaica 2 Aug. 1865. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, p. cxlviii, (1866).

CRADOCK, Rev. Edward Hartopp (3 son of Edward Grove of Shenstone park, Staffs.) b. 26 April 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. and D.D. 1854; fellow of Brasenose to 1845, principal 27 Dec. 1853 to death; R. of Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire 1845–54; canon of Worcester 31 Jany. 1848 to 1854; assumed name of Cradock by r.l. 22 May 1849. d. Oxford 27 Jany. 1886.

CRAIG, James Thomson Gibson (2 son of Sir James Gibson Craig, 1 baronet 1765–1850). b. 12 March 1799; ed. at high school and univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet; an original member of the Bannatyne club 1823, for which he edited Papers relating to the marriage of King James Sixth 1828; issued in an edition of 25 copies a series of facsimiles of historic and artistic bookbindings in his collection 1882; issued in 1883 a facsimile reprint of the Shorte summe of the whole catechism 1583 by John Craig; a first part of his valuable library was sold in London, June 1887. d. Edinburgh 18 July 1886.

CRAIG, Richard Davis (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Craig of Bocking, Essex), b. Bocking 2 Nov. 1810; studied at London Univ.; drew Boundary Act which became part of Reform act 1832; private sec. to E. J. Littleton chief sec. for Ireland 1833; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1834, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; one of the 2 revising barristers for London and Westminster 1835–40; Q.C. 11 July 1851; retired from practice 1867; published with J. W. Mylne Reports of cases in Chancery 1835–41, 5 vols. 1837–48; with T. J. Phillips Reports of cases in Chancery 1840–41, 1 vol. 1842; author of Legal and equitable rights and liabilities as to trees and woods 1866. d. Liss, Hampshire 8 May 1884.

CRAIG, William. b. Dublin 1829; water-colour painter; exhibited at R.A. Dublin 1846; went to United States 1863; an original member of American Society of water-colour painters. Drowned in Lake George, New York 1875.

CRAIG, Sir William Gibson, 2 Baronet (brother of James Thomson Gibson Craig 1799–1886). b. 2 Aug. 1797; admitted advocate 1820; M.P. for co. Edinburgh 1837–41, for city of Edin. 1841–52; a lord of the treasury 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; succeeded his father 6 March 1850; lord clerk register and keeper of signet of Scotland 3 July 1862 to death; P.C. 8 Dec. 1863. d. Riccarton near Edin. 12 March 1878. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 24 (1880).

CRAIGIE, David. b. Leith near Edinburgh 6 June 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1816; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1832, pres. Dec. 1861; phys. to Edin. Royal infirmary 1833; editor of Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 1820–32, sole proprietor and editor 1832–55; F.R.S. Edin. 1833; author of Elements of general and pathological anatomy 1828, 2 ed. 1848; Elements of anatomy, general, special and comparative 1838; Elements of the practice of physic 2 vols. 1840, and of 30 separate papers on medical subjects. d. 17 May 1866. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi, 15–16 (1869).

CRAIGIE, David. Navigating lieutenant R.N. 17 Aug. 1838; staff commander 11 June 1863; retired captain 20 Jany. 1864; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. London 8 April 1883.

CRAIGIE, Sir Patrick Edmonstone (3 son of Laurence Craigie of Glasgow). b. 1794; ed. at Glasgow school and college; ensign 52 foot 3 June 1813; lieut. col. 55 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 11 Aug. 1844 when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; commanded centre division of Madras army 7 Jany. 1855 to 23 April 1860; col. of 31 foot 20 Feb. 1859, of 55 foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 21 Jany. 1868; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Warrior terrace, St. Leonards 13 Dec. 1873.

CRAIGIE, Robert. Entered navy 22 March 1811; captain 7 Nov. 1839; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870. d. Dawlish 2 March 1873 in 73 year.

CRAIGIE, William. b. Belnaboth, Aberdeenshire 11 March 1799; studied for medical profession at Marischal college, Aberdeen and at Univs. of Edin. and Dublin; settled at Ancaster, Canada West 1834, removed to Hamilton 1845; held a high position as a scientific authority on meteorology, botany, horticulture and agriculture; a member of Board of arts and manufactures of Canada West. d. Hamilton, Aug. 1863.

CRAIK, George Lillie (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Craik, assistant minister of parish of Kennoway, Fifeshire, who d. 1830). b. Kennoway 1798; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.; edited the Star local paper 1817; came to London 1826; professor of English literature and history at Queen’s college, Belfast 1849 to death; examiner for Indian civil service in London 1859 and 1862; author of The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties 2 vols. 1830–31; Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England 6 vols. 1844–45 expanded into A Compendious History of English literature and of the English language 2 vols. 1861; Spenser and his poetry 3 vols. 1845; Bacon, his writings and his philosophy 3 vols. 1846–7; Romance of the peerage 4 vols. 1848–50; author with C. Macfarlane of The pictorial history of England 4 vols. 1837–41. d. 2 Chlorine place, Belfast 25 June 1866. Certificates in favour of G. L. Craik for the office of one of the Latin masters in the new Edinburgh Academy.

CRAIK, Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Prestonpans, East Lothian 8 Aug. 1805; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; tutor in family of Anthony Norris Groves of Exeter 1826, in family of John Synge of Buckridge house near Teignmouth 1828–31; pastor of Baptist chapel, Shaldon, Devon 1831–32; laboured in Bristol with George Muller (founder of the New orphan houses, Ashley Down) 1832 to death, founded with him a society at Bristol similar to the Plymouth Brethren 1832; author of The Hebrew language, its history and characteristics 1860; Principia Hebraica 1863. d. Hampton park, Redland near Bristol 22 Jany. 1866. W. E. Tayler’s Passages from the diary and letters of H. Craik 1866.

CRAMER, Johann Baptist (eld. son of Wilhelm Cramer of London, violinist 1745–99). b. Mannheim 24 Feb. 1771; taken to London 1774; made his first appearance as a pianist 1781; travelled abroad 1788–91, 1798 and 1816–18; a member of board of management of Royal Academy of Music 1822; founded firm of music publishers J. B. Cramer and Co. in Regent st. London 1828 from which he retired 1835; occupied the foremost rank of his day as a pianist; composed, adapted and arranged 250 pieces of music; his Eighty four Studies are still very popular. d. Kensington terrace, London 16 April 1858. The Harmonicon i, 179–81 (1823), portrait.

CRAMP, Rev. John Mockett (son of Rev. Thomas Cramp, founder of Baptist church at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, who d. 17 Nov. 1851 aged 82). b. St. Peter’s 25 July 1796; ed. at Stepney college, London; pastor of baptist chapel, Dean st. Southwark 1818; assistant pastor at St. Peter’s 1827–42; pastor of baptist chapel, Hastings 1842–44; pres. of baptist college, Montreal 1844–49; pres. of Acadia college, Nova Scotia 1851–69; edited The Register a Montreal weekly religious journal 1844–49; edited with Rev. W. Taylor The Colonial Protestant a monthly mag. 1848–49; general editor of The Pilot Montreal newspaper 1849–51; author of A text book of Popery 1831; Baptist history from the foundation of the Christian church to the eighteenth century 1868 and many other books. d. Wolfville, Nova Scotia 6 Dec. 1881.

CRAMPTON, Sir John Fiennes Twisleton, 2 Baronet (elder son of the succeeding). b. Dawson st. Dublin 12 Aug. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin; attached to mission at Turin 1826, to embassy at St. Petersburg 1828; paid attaché at Brussels 1834, at Vienna 1839; sec. of legation to Confederated states of Swiss Cantons 1844, in the United States 1845, chargé d’Affaires there 1847–49 and 1850–52; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to U.S. 19 Jany. 1852, the pres. of the U.S. discontinued official intercourse with him 28 May 1856 on account of his recruiting soldiers in the U.S. for the British army, when he returned to England but he held the appointment to 20 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 20 Sep. 1856; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Hanover 2 March 1857, at St. Petersburg 31 March 1858, at Madrid 11 Dec. 1860 to 1 July 1869 when he retired on pension; succeeded his father 10 June 1858. d. Bushey park, Enniscorthy, co. Wicklow 5 Dec. 1886.

CRAMPTON, Sir Philip, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Crampton of Merrion sq. Dublin 1732–92). b. Dublin 7 June 1777; assistant surgeon in army; surgeon to Meath hospital, Dublin 1798; M.D. Glasgow 1800; taught anatomy in private lectures and maintained a dissecting room behind his own house; surgeon general to the forces in Ireland to his death, the last who held that appointment; surgeon in ord. to the Queen for Ireland; a member of senate of the Queen’s Univ.; pres. of Royal college of surgeons, Dublin 3 times; F.R.S. 16 April 1812; created baronet 14 March 1839. d. Merrion sq. Dublin 10 June 1858. Dublin Univ. Mag. xv, 613 (1840), portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 52–53 (1861).

CRAMPTON, Philip Cecil (4 son of Rev. Cecil Crampton 1733–1819, R. of Headford, co. Galway). b. May 1782; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1800, fellow 1807, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807; LL.B. 1809, LLD. 1810; called to Irish bar 1810; professor of common and feudal law in Univ. of Dublin 1816–34; solicitor general for Ireland 23 Dec. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1831; justice of Court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland 21 Oct. 1834 to Jany. 1859; M.P. for Milborne, Port, Somerset 15 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Univ. of Dublin, Dec. 1832 and Dungarvan, Feb. 1834; P.C. 1858. d. St. Valente, Bray, co. Wicklow 29 Dec. 1862. Address on Judge Crampton’s retirement with some of his charges to Juries 1859; O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 299–302.

CRAMPTON, Thomas. b. Sheerness 1817; organist at Staines 1840, afterwards at Brentford and Ealing; government lecturer at Kneller Hall training college 1854; composed anthems, glees and instrumental music; purchaser of music to the British Museum 1875; published The church psalter 1854; The part singer 1868; Twenty-four school songs with lessons on musical notation 1873; Forty school songs 1882; Music for the New Code staff notation 1884; composed and printed upwards of 35 pieces of music; some of his duets and trios appeared under the nom de plume of J. Karl Bernhardt. d. 2 Devonshire gardens, Chiswick 13 April 1885.

CRANE, Lucy (dau. of the succeeding.) b. Liverpool 22 Sep. 1842; ed. in London; wrote the original verses and rhymed versions of nursery legends for her brother Walter Crane’s Coloured Toybooks 1869–75; delivered lectures in London and the North on Art and the formation of taste; author of Household stories from the Brothers Grimm, translated 1882; Art and formation of taste, Six lectures 1882. d. Bolton-le-Moors 31 March 1882.

CRANE, Thomas (son of Mr. Crane of Chester, bookseller). b. Chester 1808; artist at Chester 1825; associate of Liverpool Academy 1835, member 1838, treasurer 1841; lived at Torquay 1844–57; his principal works were portraits in oil, water-colour and crayon; exhibited 9 subject pictures at the R.A.; illustrated various books. d. Lambton terrace, Bayswater, London 15 July 1859.

CRANWORTH, Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1 Baron (elder son of Rev. Edmund Rolfe, R. of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, who d. 24 July 1795). b. Cranworth, Norfolk 18 Dec. 1790; ed. at Bury school, Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Downing coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 21 May 1816, bencher 1832; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds about 1830; K.C. Aug. 1832; M.P. for Penryn 1832–39; solicitor general 6 Nov. to 20 Dec. 1834 and 30 April 1835 to 11 Nov. 1839; baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Nov. 1839 to 2 Nov. 1850; one of comrs. of the Great Seal 19 June to 15 July 1850; vice chancellor 2 Nov. 1850; P.C. 13 Nov. 1850; created Baron Cranworth of Cranworth, co. Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 being the first and only instance of a vice chancellor receiving dignity of a peer; one of the two lords justices of appeal in chancery 8 Oct. 1851; lord chancellor 28 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 7 July 1865 to 6 July 1867. d. 40 Upper Brook st. London 26 July 1868. bur. Keston churchyard. Men of the time British statesmen (1854) 251–58; Law mag. and law review xxvi, 278–84 (1869); The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 251–58; I.L.N. xvii, 357 (1850), portrait, xxx, 109 (1857), portrait, liii, 114, 153 (1868), portrait.

CRAUFURD, Edward Henry John (eld. son of John Craufurd 1780–1867, secretary to senate of Ionian islands). b. 9 Dec. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; admitted barrister M.T. 10 April 1854; edited The Legal Examiner 1852; M.P. for Ayr district 22 July 1852 to 26 Jany. 1874; author of Advocacy in county courts. d. Portencross, Ayrshire 29 Aug. 1887.