CRAWSHAY, GEORGE (1 son of George Crawshay of Colney Hatch, Middlesex). b. London 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. ; partner in firm of Hawks, Crawshay and Co. of Gateshead, contractors, head of firm to 1889 when the works closed; carried out large contracts for admiralty and war office and for foreign and colonial governments, made 90 bridges for Caucasian railway, 15 large lighthouses and many other works; supported the Chartists 1848 also the Poles, Hungarians and Danes; mayor of Gateshead 1856, 1859 and 1865; set up a Turkish bath in his house at Tynemouth, being the first in England; Turkish consul at Newcastle 28 Dec. 1881 to 1889 ; author of The immediate cause of the Indian mutiny as set forth in the official correspondence 1858. d. Hazelwood, Horsted Keynes, Sussex 13 March 1896. Times 23 March 1896 p. 10.

CREALOCK, HENRY HOPE (2 son of Wm. Belton Crealock d. 3 Stanhope place, Hyde park, London 25 Sept. 1854 aged 65). b. 31 March 1831; educ. Rugby; ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1848, major 13 Jany. 1860 to 23 July 1861; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 17 Sept. 1855 to 31 July 1856 and China 23 May 1857 to 21 Jany. 1858; D.A.A.G. to chief of staff Bengal 7 Sept. 1858 to 10 Oct. 1859; mil. sec. to earl of Elgin in China 27 March 1860 to 30 April 1861; assistant mil. sec. Gibraltar 1 Nov. 1862 to 13 April 1865; mil attaché St. Petersburgh 26 April 1865 to 18 June 1866 and Vienna 19 June 1866 to Aug. 1869; D.Q.M.G. Ireland 25 Feb. 1874 to 13 Oct. 1877; commanded first division in Zulu war 8 April to July 1879; served in Crimean campaign, China wars 1857-8 and 1860, and Indian mutiny 1858-9; M.G. 2 Jany. 1870, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 4 Sept. 1884; C.B. 2 June 1869; C.M.G. 19 Dec. 1879; many sketches by him of Zulu war are in I.L.N. 1879; author of Among the red deer; sketches from nature in the forest 1870, Foreign politics and England's foreign policy: a lecture 1873, The eastern question and the foreign policy of Great Britain: a series of papers from 1870 to 1878, 1878, Deer stalking in the Highlands of Scotland 1892 folio 6 guineas net. d. 20 Victoria sq. Pimlico, London, 31 May 1891. Ashe and Edgell's Story of the Zulu campaign 1880 pp. 194-9, 266-7, 354-6; United service mag. 1879 part 3 pp. 229-44; Vanity Fair 15 March 1879 prt.; I.L.N. 13 June 1891 p. 771 prt., 792, 11 July p. 56.

CREALOCK, JOHN NORTH (brother of preceding). b. 21 May 1836; ensign 95 foot 13 Oct. 1854, major 30 March 1875, lieut.-col.

CREALOCK, J. N. (Con.)

2nd battalion Derbyshire reg. 21 July 1880, placed on h.p. 21 July 1885; D.A.A.G. Aldershot 16 Nov. 1871 to 19 May 1875; assistant mil. sec. Cape of Good Hope 25 Feb. 1878, mil. sec. May to July 1879; A.A.G. Aldershot 1 April 1887 to 22 May 1890; A.Q.M.G. head-quarters 23 May 1890 to 29 Feb. 1892; commanded 45th regimental district at Derby 24 Nov. 1885 to 31 March 1887 and 2nd infantry brigade at Aldershot 1 April 1892 to 20 Oct. 1893; commanded in Burma 13 Nov. 1893 to March 1895 and in Bengal 19 March 1895 to death; served in Indian mutiny and Kaffir and Zulu campaigns 1878-9; commandant at Alexandria in Egyptian expedition 1882; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879; M.G 24 Dec. 1891. d. Rawal Pindi 24 April 1895. Times 25 April 1895 p. 5 ; I.L.N. 13 July 1895 p. 56. CREENY, WILLIAM FREDERIC. b. Portaferry, Down, Ireland 19 May 1825; educ. St. John's coll. Camb., B.A. 1853, M.A. 1860; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854; C. of St. Mark, Lakenham 1853-5; C. of Wellingborough 1855-9; chaplain to bishop of St. Helena 1859-62; chaplain of St. Leonard and Isle of Ryde, Sydney 1862-72; C. of St. John, Upper Norwood 1873-4; C, of Soham, Cambs. 18746; V. of St. Michael-at-Thorn, Norwich 1876 to death; framed a method of teaching music of an expeditious character which created considerable interest upon its introduction; member of Norfolk and Norwich archæological society; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1886; pres. of Memorial brass soc,; author of Notes of a visit to Jerusalem 1873, A book of fac-similes of monumental brasses on the continent of Europe with brief descriptive notes, illustrated with photo-lithographic plates Norwich 1885, folio, Illustrations of incised slabs on the continent 1891. d.8 Orford hill, Norwich 18 April 1897, memorial brass in church of St. Michael, Norwich unveiled 21 June 1898. The Eagle June 1897 pp. 605–7; Times 21 April 1897 p. 6. CREESER, JOHN. b. 1842; educ. St. John's coll. Camb. exhibitioner 1860-4; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; ordained deacon 1865, priest 1866; C. of Redlynch, Wiltshire 1865-8; 2nd master of Bruton gr. sch. 1864-72; C. of Lamyat, Somerset 1868-72; C. of St. John the Baptist, West Derby, Liverpool 1872-8; 2nd master of Merchant Taylors sch. Crosby, Liverpool 1878-83; head master of Bootle coll. Liverpool 1883 to death; licensed preacher diocese of Liverpool 1883 to death. d. Oundle 27 Dec. 1890. Guardian 31 Dec. 1890 p. 2096. CREGAN, MARTIN. b. Meath 1788; pupil in London of Sir M. A. Shee; portrait painter

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in London 1812-21 then in Dublin; a member of Royal Hibernian academy from its foundation 16 Aug. 1823, pres. 1834-57; exhibited 37 pictures at R.A. and 6 at B.I. 1812-51. d. Dublin 12 Dec. 1870. Webb's Compendium of Irish biography 1878 p. 583; Bryan's Dict. of painters new ed. 1903 i 351.

CREIGHTON, GEORGE WRIGHT. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B. A. 1815, M A. 1832; barrister King's Inns, Dublin 1813; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. d. 1869. Thom's Irish directory 1869 p. 1,004.

CRESWICK, WILLIAM. b. Long Acre, London 27 Dec. 1813; first appeared on the stage at a theatre in Commercial road, London 1831; acted in Kent and Suffolk; played leading parts in Yorkshire 1836-9; played in America and Canada 1839-42; acted at Sadlers Wells 1846, Princess's 1847 and Haymarket 1847-9; joint lessee with Richard Shepherd of Surrey theatre, London Sept. 1849 to Sept. 1862 and Sept. 1866 to 27 Sept. 1869; played Hotspur at Drury lane 24 Sept. 1864 and then Othello, Iago, Macbeth, Macduff and Iachimo; played in America again 1871 and in Australasia 1877-80; last appeared on stage at Drury lane 29 Oct. 1885 as Lear; (m. 1839 Elizabeth Page known as Miss Paget an actress, she d. 16 Feb. 1876 aged 67). d. 12 The terrace, Kennington park, London 17 June 1888. bur. Kensal Green cemet. W. Creswick's An autobiography, a record of 50 years of professional life 1885; Pascoe's Dramatic list 2 ed. 1880 pp. 115-8; Theatrical times 19 June 1847 p. 185 prt. NOTE. His younger son Charles Edward Creswick an actor d. 1 Dinmore terrace, Munster road, Fulham 30 Aug. 1885 aged 35.

CRETNEY, JAMES. One of best Gaelic scholars

of the day; translated Parnell's The Hermit and other poems into Manx language. d. Douglas, Isle of Man 9 July 1851 aged 84. G.M. Sept. 1851 p. 330.

CREUZE, AUGUSTIN FRANCIS BULLOCK. b. Portsmouth 1800; educ. school of naval architecture; one of foremen Portsmouth dockyard; surveyor Lloyd's Register, London 1845, principal surveyor 1849 to death; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1842; author of Treatise on the theory and practice of naval architecture 1841 reprinted from Encyclopædia Britannica 7 ed.; author with Wm. Morgan of Papers on naval architecture and other subjects connected with naval science 3 vols. 1826-30. d. Perry Vale, Sydenham 23 Nov. 1852. Annals of Lloyd's Register 1884 p. 150; G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 107; certificate of registrar general.

CREWE, HUNgerford CrewE, 3 Baron (only son of 2 baron Crewe 1770-1835). b. Cavendish sq. London 10 Aug. 1812; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; succeeded 4 Dec. 1835; restored Crewe hall near Nantwich 1874 at cost of £150,000; a presentation prt. of him by Sir Francis Grant was exhibited at R. A. 1861. d. Crewe hall 3 Jany. 1894. bur. Barthomley churchyard. Vanity Fair 7 Jany. 1882 prt.; I.L.N. 13 Jany. 1894 pp. 38, 58.

NOTE. His charities having become the subject of much public comment, an inquiry was instituted by the Charity comrs., which resulted in the attorney general preparing a scheme for the future guidance of his trustees March 1873. T. Fordyce's Local records 1876 pp. 248-50.

CREWE, SIR JOHN HARPUR, 9 BARONET (1 son of Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8 baronet 17951844). b. Calke abbey near Ashbourne 18 Nov. 1824; educ. Rugby and Exeter coll. Oxf.; succeeded 1 Jany. 1844; sheriff of Derbyshire 1853. d. Calke abbey 1 March 1886. Cokayne's Complete baronetage 1902 ii 3; I.L.N. 13 March 1886 p. 261.

CRICHTON, DAVID MAITLAND MAKGILL (2

son of Charles Crichton of Rankeilour, Fifeshire d. 1820). b. Rankeilour 4 March 1801; advocate 1822; worked in cause of church extension from 1834; contested St. Andrew's district 28 July 1837; presented by ten thousand members of the Free church with a silver centre piece at Rankeilour Sept. 1845. d. Rankeilour 11 July 1851, memorial statue at Cupar overlooking the railway bridge. Memoir of the late D. M. M. Crichton by Rev. G. W. Taylor 1853 prt.; Wylie's Disruption worthies 1881, ii 185-92 prt.

CRICHTON, JAMES ARTHUR (son of How Crichton oldest member of Soc. of solicitors before supreme courts d. 28 May 1891 aged 97). b. 1824 or 1825; advocate 1847; vice dean of Faculty of advocates 1876-85; sheriff of Fife 1870-86 and of the Lothians and Peebles 1886 to death. d. 13 Nelson st. Edinburgh 29 May 1891. Times 1 June 1891 p. 7. CRICK, THOMAS (son of Rev. Thomas Crick, R. of Little Thurlow, Suffolk 1787 to his death 13 April 1818 aged 66). b. 17 April 1801; educ. Felsted sch. 1818-9 and St. John's coll. Camb. fellow 22 March 1825, a senior fellow 1839 to 14 Sept. 1848, tutor 1831-46, president 9 May 1839 to 5 May 1846; first Bell scholar 1820; senior chancellor's medallist 1823; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, B.D. 1833; B.D. Oxf. 1834; ordained deacon 1824, priest 1825; classical examiner at Camb. 1829, public orator 1836-48, R. of Little Thurlow, Suffolk 20 June 1825 to April 1848; R. of

CRICK, T. (Con).

Staplehurst, Kent April 1848 to death. d. Staplehurst rectory I June 1876. Alumni Felstedienses 1903 p. 32; Times 8 June 1876 p. 8.

NOTE. His son Rev. Thomas Crick, V. of Farnworth-with-Kersley near Bolton 1886 to death at St. Annes-on-Sea 23 June 1904 aged 41.

CRIDDLE, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Alabaster who d. about 1818). b. The Chapel House, Holywell Mount, Flintshire 1805; studied art under John Hayter 1824-26; received large gold medal of Society of Arts for her picture The visit to an astrologer 1832; a lady member of Soc. of painters in water colours 12 Feb. 1849, resigned 1880; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I., 16 at S.S. and 149 at O. W. 1837-79; (m. 1836 Harry Criddle of Kennington, London, he d. 18 Ŏct. 1857 aged 50); resided at Addlestone near Chertsey 1861 to death. d. Addlestone 28 Dec. 1880. Clayton's English female artists 1876 ii 70-4; Roget's History of the old water-colour society 1891, ii 337-9.

CRIPPS, HENRY WILLIAM (1 son of Rev. Henry Cripps 1789-1861, V. of Preston All Saints near Cirencester 1817-61). b. Cirencester 20 March 1815; educ Winchester and New coll. Oxf. scholar 1834-6, fellow 1836-45; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; student L.I. 18 Jany. 1837; student M.T. 14 Jany. 1840, barrister M.T. 8 May 1840, bencher 30 Jany. 1866 to death, treasurer 1880; recorder of Lichfield 30 Nov. 1852 to death; Q.C. 10 Jany. 1866; a leader at parliamentary bar, retired 1879; vice chairman of Bucks quarter sessions 1875, chairman April 1889 to death; chancellor of diocese of Oxford Nov. 1883 to death; alderman of Bucks county council to 1899, chairman 1889; author of A practical treatise on the laws relating to the church and the clergy 1845, 6 ed. 1886, Reports of new cases decided in the chancery, common law and ecclesiastical courts 1846-1849 i vol. 1849. d. Beechwood, Marlow 14 Aug. 1899, the tower of parish ch. at Lane end near Marlow and a peal of bells provided in memory of him Oct. 1900. Law journal 19 Aug. 1899 p. 452, 20 Oct. 1900 p. 563; Hutchinson's Catalogue of notable Middle Templars 1902 p. 62; I.L.N. 19 Aug. 1899 p. 239 prt., 21 Oct. p. 590.

CRIPPS, JOHN MATTHEW. b. 31 May 1823;

ensign Indian army 11 Dec. 1839; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 29 Aug. 1840, captain 1 Sept. 1850; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 11 Dec. 1865; served Affghan campaign 1842 and Sutlej campaign 1845-6; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 March 1891. d. Elm

CRIPPS, J. M. (Con.)

cote, Eastbourne 25 Oct. 1892. Kelly's Handbook 1890 p. 306.

CRISP, EDWARDS (1 child of Crisp of Rendlesham, Suffolk, farmer). b. Rendlesham 10 Dec. 1806; educ. St. Bartholomew's hosp. London; L.S.A. 1828; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. St. Andrew's Aug. 1848; began practice in Camberwell new road, London April 1829, removed to Walworth 1830; began practice as phys. at 21 Parliament st. April 1849; phys. to Metropolitan disp. Fore st. 1849; phys. at 16 Beaufort st. Chelsea 1877 to death; silver medallist Medical soc. of London 1843; edited London medical examiner, monthly review and statistical journal of practical medicine 12 monthly parts, March 1850 to Feb. 1851; author of A treatise on the structure, diseases and injuries of the blood-vessels 1847, translated into German 1849; The examination of a rejected candidate at the royal college of physicians of London, December 21st 1848, 1849; A treatise on the structure and use of the Spleen 1855, On malignant cholera 1866 and other books. d. 15 Nov. 1882. Medical circular 14 Sept. 1853 p. 207; Lancet 1882, ii 1010. CROCKER, JOSEPH PAUL. b. 1834; started with G. W. Moore, Ritter, and Hamilton a troupe of Christy minstrels in Liverpool 1864; proprietor with G. W. Moore of the Christy minstrels 1865 to death, performing at St. James's hall, Piccadilly, London 18 Sept. 1865 to death. d. 81 Regent st. London 17 Dec. 1869. The Era 19 Dec. 1869 p. 9; certificate of registrar general.

CROCKFORD, JOHN. b. 1823; publisher at 49 Essex st. Strand, London 1843, removed to 346 Strand and 19 Wellington st. north 6 Dec. 1858; published The law times 1843 to death, first number dated 18 Nov. 1843; published The Critic 26 vols. 1844-63; manager of The Field Nov. 1854 to death; published in weekly parts 1855-7 The clerical directory, a biographical and statistical book of reference for facts relating to the clergy and the church, issued in one vol. 1858, it contains 18,559 memoirs and cost more than £500 for postage stamps alone, the 2nd ed. issued 1860 is entitled Crockford's clerical directory. d. 10 Park road, Haverstock Hill, 13 Jany. 1865. Notes and queries 31 Jany. 1903 p. 82; Times 16 Jany. 1865 p. 1.

CROFT, HENRY (3 son of admiral Wm. Croft 1782-1872). b. 22 Jany. 1814; entered navy 16 Feb. 1828; commander 22 Oct. 1853; commander of Cæsar 80 guns in the Baltic

CROFT, H. (Con.)

during Russian war 26 Jany. 1854 to 10 May 1856; captain 10 May 1856, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 March 1885. d. Motspur park, Malden, Surrey 26 Jany. 1892. O'Byrne's Naval biog. dict. new ed. 1861 p. 261; Times 4 Feb. 1892 p. 6.

CROFT, WILLIAM WALTER. b. about 1832; accountant to firm of Tinsley Brothers, publishers, Catherine st. Strand, London some years; assistant editor of Whitaker's Almanack 1876 to death; compiled and edited at one time 13 almanacks; invented a perpetual calendar; a firstrate amateur photographer; edited May's Press guide; revised many important books; a press corrector latterly. d. 12 Glendall st. Stockwell, London 25 Sept. 1891. Downey's Twenty years ago 1905 pp. 242-6; certificate of registrar general. CROFTON, DENIS (younger son of Sir Morgan George Crofton, 3 baronet 1788-1867). b. 6 April 1819; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B A. 1841; M.R.I.A. 24 Aug. 1857; author of Genesis and geology: or an investigation into the reconciliation of the modern doctrines of geology, with the declarations of scripture 1852; bequeathed £10,000 to representative body of church of Ireland and £15,000 to Church missionary soc. to endow a mission to be called the Denis Crofton mission. d. 8 Mountjoy sq Dublin 2 Dec. 1887. I.L.N. 28 July 1888 p. 110.

CROFTON, HUGH DENIS (brother of preceding). b. Dublin 7 Jany. 1814; ensign 56 foot 13 March 1835, lieut. 29 Dec. 1837; lieut. 20 foot 27 April 1838, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 11 May 1855; lieut.-col. 17 foot 9 March 1858 to 16 Dec. 1859; lieut.col. 11th depot battalion at Preston 16 Dec. 1859 to death; commanded 20 foot at battle of Alma and one wing of the army at battle of Inkerman. d. Fulwood barracks, Preston 15 Sept. 1861 having been shot day before by Patrick M'Cafferay private 32nd foot who was sentenced to death at Liverpool assizes 13 Dec. 1861 and hanged at Kirkdale 12 Jany. 1862. A.R. 1862 pp. 183-4; G.M. Oct. 1861 p. 457.

CROFTON, SIR MORGAN GEORGE, 4 Baronet (1 son of preceding). b. 5 April 1850; educ. Eton; succeeded his grandfather 24 June 1867; cornet North Somerset yeomanry 10 Feb. 1870 to 9 Aug. 1872; lieut. Leitrim militia 26 June 1871 to 11 June 1872; sheriff of Leitrim 1874; contested North Sligo 23 July 1895. d. Woodside lodge, Marchwood near Southampton 26 Feb. 1900. Times 5 March 1900 p. 11.

CROFTON, SIR WALTER FREDERICK (son of Walter Crofton captain 54 foot 1809 to his death at battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815). b. Courtrai, West Flanders 27 Feb. 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1833, captain 17 Jany. 1845, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1845; placed on retired pay 1 July 1881; chairman of directors of convict prisons in Ireland about 1 Nov. 1854, retired I June 1862 on pension of £333 6s. 8d.; C.B. 13 June 1857; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin castle 30 May 1862; comr. of county and borough gaols in England 1865-8; P.C. Ireland 1868; chairman of the Prisons board in Ireland 1877-8; author of A few remarks on the convict question 1857, A brief description of the Irish convict system 1862 and other books. d. Oxford 23 June 1897. Biograph Feb. 1882 pp. 183-6; Times 25 June 1897 p. 10.

CROFTS, CHRISTOPHER (4 son of Rev. John Crofts of Fakenham, Norfolk). b. 1804; educ. Magd. hall and Hertford coll. Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1874; ordained deacon and priest 1828; head master of Collegiate sch. Camberwell 1846-54 and of Sevenoaks gr. sch. 185479; chaplain to Earl Delawarr 1873 to death. d. Edinburgh 9 July 1894. Crockford's Clerical directory 1894 p. 313.

CROLL, JAMES (2 son of David Croll of Little Whitefield, Perthshire, stonemason). b. Little Whitefield 2 Jany. 1821; apprenticed to a wheelwright at Collace; kept a shop at Elgin 1847-50 and a temperance hotel at Blairgowrie 1852-3; agent for Safety life assurance soc. at Glasgow, at Edinb. and then at Leicester 1853-8; keeper at Andersonian. univ. Glasgow 1859-67; keeper of maps Geological survey of Scotland Sept. 1867, retired 1881; F.R.S. 1 June 1876; L.L.D. St. Andrew's 1876; author of The philosophy of theism 1857, What determines molecular motion 1872, Climate and time in their geological relations: a theory of secular changes of the earth's climate 1875, new ed. 1885, Discussions on climate and cosmology 1885, Stellar evolution and its relations to geological time 1889 and about 90 papers. d. 5 Pitcullen crescent, Perth, 15 Dec. 1890. Autobiographical sketch of James Croll: with memoir of his life and work by J. C. Irons 1896 prt.; Proc. of royal soc. 1892, 1 219-21; Popular science monthly 1897, li 433 prt.

CROMARTIE, FRANCIS SUTHERLAND-LEVESONGOWER, 2 Earl of (3 son of 3 duke of Sutherland 1828-92 by Anne only dau. of John Hay Mackenzie, she was b. 1829 created countess of Cromartie 1861 and d. 1888). b. Tarbat house, Parkhill, Rossshire 3 Aug 1852;

CROMARTIE, 2 EARL OF (Con.) styled Viscount Tarbat 1861-88; lieut. Lancashire hussars yeomanry 1 July 1881 to 23 May 1883; major 1st Sutherland r.v. 23 May 1883 to 20 July 1889; succeeded his mother under a special remainder 25 Nov. 1888. d. Stafford house, St. James's, London 24 Nov. 1893. bur. Trentham. Cokayne's Complete peerage 1889, ii 429, 1898, viii 359; I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1893 p. 714.

CROMBIE, FREDERICK. b. 1826 or 1827; matric. St. Andrew's univ. 16 Feb. 1843, B.A., M.A.; minister of Scotch ch. Paris; minister of Penpont, Dumfriesshire 1863-8; professor of divinity and biblical criticism St. Mary's coll., St. Andrew's Oct. 1868 to death, admitted 27 Nov. 1868; translated for the Anti-Nicene christian library The writings of the apostolic fathers 1867 and The writings of Origen 2 vols. 1868-72. d. St. Andrew's 19 June 1889. Guardian 26 June 1889 p. 986. CROMBIE, JOHN MANN. b. 1844; educ. Aberdeen, Paris and London univs.; M.A. Aberdeen 1864, M.D. and C M. 1868; practised at 140 Finborough road, West Brompton, London 1875 to death; resident medical officer Cancer hosp. London; invented Self-anaesthetic administrator, hypodermic suppositories, spiral elastic compress for headache and absorbent paper; author of The induction of sleep and insensibility to pain by the self-administration of anæsthetics 1873, Pain; its cause and cure 1875 and other books. d. 1 Oakley sq. Hampstead road, London from taking an overdose of morphia 26 Nov. 1883, verdict death from misadventure. Times 1 Dec. 1883 p. 7.

CROMEK, THOMAS HARTLEY (son of Robert Hartley Cromek, engraver 1770-1812). b. Wakefield 8 Aug. 1809; landscape painter; resided in Italy and Greece 1831-49 and at Wakefield 1850 to death; associate of New soc. of painters in water colours 1850 to death; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 4 at S.S. and 60 at N.W. 1835-72. d. Wakefield 10 April 1873. Bryan's Dict. of painters new ed. 1903, i 358; W. Smith's Old Yorkshire 1889 p. 71. CROMPTON, CHARLES (1 son of Sir Charles John Crompton 1797-1865, justice of court of Queen's Bench 1852-65). b. 4 Feb. 1833; educ. Univ. coll. sch. London 1841-8, Univ. coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1856-63; bracketted fourth wrangler 1855; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; barrister I.T. 6 June 1864, bencher 25 Nov. 1887 to death; went northern circuit; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; contested West Cheshire 10 April 1880 and Leek div. of Staffs. 13 July 1886; M.P. for Leek

CROMPTON, C. (Con.)

div. 2 Dec. 1885 to 26 June 1886. d. 13 Cromwell place, South Kensington, London 25 June 1890. Law Times 9 Aug. 1890 p. 281; I.L.N. 5 July 1890 p. 6, 16 Aug. p. 220. CROMPTON, SARAH (1 dau. of J. W. Crompton of Birmingham, merchant). b. Mount st. Birmingham 1802; author of Old and new stories in short words 1853, Life of Martin Luther 1860, Tales of life in earnest 1862, A tale of the crusades 1872 and 6 other books. d. Hagley terrace, Birmingham 13 May 1881. Edgbastonia, Nov. 1884 pp. 161-4 pit. CROMPTON-STANSFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY (1 child of Joseph Samuel Crompton 17991881, M.P. for Ripon 1832-4). b. 3 Aug. 1836; educ. Harrow 1848-51; ensign 42 foot 17 Aug. 1854, captain 7 Nov. 1856, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; captain 11 foot 9 Jany. 1858, lieut.-col. 22 July 1871, placed on h.p. 7 March 1877; retired with hon. rank of M.Ğ. 7 March 1882; served in Crimean campaign 1855-6; took additional name of Stansfield 14 May 1872. d. at his shooting-box, Buckden Moors near Skipton 6 Sept. 1888. I.L.N. 22 Sept. 1888 p. 339.

CRONIN, EDWARD. b. south of Ireland about

1801; a medical student in Dublin 1826; took the degree of M.D.; received to com munion by various dissenting churches but declined to become a member of any of them; publicly denounced by name in Rev. E. Cooper's chapel 1828; departed for Bagdad with his mother and sister June 1830, detained at Aleppo 15 months, reached Bagdad about May 1832; went on to India, returned 1837; one of the four founders of Plymouth Brethren at Dublin 1828, excommunicated for schism 19 Aug. 1879. d. 185 Brixton road, London 1 Feb. 1882. Neatby's A history of the Plymouth Brethren 2 ed. 1902 pp. 18-23, 286-97, 351; Miller's The Brethren, their origin, progress and testimony 1879 pp. 7–13; certificate of registrar general.

CRONIN, PATRICK HENRY (son of J. G. Cronin). b. near Mallow, Cork 7 Aug. 1846; taken to New York when a baby; a druggist at St. Louis, Missouri 1867; M.D. St. Louis coll. of phys. and surgeons 1878, professor of materia medica and therapeutics; M.A. and Ph.D. Jesuit univ. St. Louis 1882; phys. at Cook co. hosp. Chicago; an Irish dynamite nationalist at Chicago; expelled from the Clan-na-Gael and denounced as a spy by Alexander Sullivan and the leaders, termed the Triangle and condemned to death by them for accusing them of embezzling funds