Samuel Crawley
Samuel Crawley(16 December 1790 – 21 December 1852) was an EnglishWhigpolitician who sat in theHouse of Commonsvariously between 1818 and 1841.
Early life[edit]
He was the son of Samuel Crawley, of Keysoe, and his wife, the heiress Eliza Rankin.[1]His paternal grandparents were married Susannah (néeSambrooke) Crawley (a daughter ofSir Samuel Sambrooke, 3rd Baronet,ofBush Hill) andJohn Crawley,MP forMarlborough.[2]
His mother was the daughter of Elizabeth Condon, sister of Charles Condon (died 1781), heir to theRagnallestate inNottinghamshire,who changed his name to Mellish.[3]She was involved in litigation of the 1780s with her cousin Mary Mellish, for the possession of Ragnall Hall ( "the defendant was niece to the deceased, and one of the principal parties in his will" ).[4][5]In an initial case at Nottingham Assizes in 1785, Mary Mellish was successful in her plea of trespass against Eliza Rankin.[6]Two subsequent cases went the other way.
Crawley was educated atEton Collegefrom 1805 to 1808 and then atChrist Church, Oxfordwhere he matriculated in 1808. In 1815, he inherited the estate ofStockwoodinBedfordshirefrom his uncle John.[1][7]
Career[edit]
On 12 February 1817, Crawley was appointedHigh Sheriff of Bedfordshire.In 1818 he was electedMember of ParliamentforHoniton,through the influence of a relative,[1]He held the seat until 1826. In 1819 he sold the Ragnall and Dunham estate, purchased by his father.[3]In 1824 it was bought byJohn Angerstein.[8]
At the1832 general electionCrawley was elected MP forBedford.In the1837 electionhis opponentHenry Stuartwas elected, but was unseated on petition in 1838. Crawley was reinstated and held the seat until 1841.[9]
Personal life[edit]
On 19 June 1817, Crawley married Theodosia Mary Vyner (d. 1820), daughter ofRobert Vynerand the former Lady Theodosia Maria Ashburnham (youngest daughter ofJohn Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham). Before her death, they were the parents of one daughter.[1]
- Theodosia Sambrooke Crawley (1818–1879), who married Clement, Comte de Mont Real, in 1839.[10]
On 15 July 1822, he married his second wife, Maria Musgrave, granddaughter ofSir Philip Musgrave, 6th Baronet,by whom he had five sons and one daughter, including:[1]
- John Sambrooke Crawley (1823–1895), who married Sarah Bridget Wells, second daughter of Frederick Octavius Wells of theBengal Civil Service.[10]
- Henry Sambrooke Crawley (b. 1824), who was a Lt. in the1st Life Guards.[10]
- Arthur Sambrooke Crawley (1825–1844), who was buried atKensal Green.[10]
- Philip Sambrooke Crawley (b. 1827), who served in theColdstream Guards;he married Jane Francis Paget, a daughter of theVice AdmiralSir Charles Paget.[10]
- Anne Crawley (1833–1910), who died unmarried.[10]
Crawley died at the age of 62 and was buried atNaples.[11]
References[edit]
- ^abcde"Crawley, Samuel (1790-1852), of Stockwood, nr. Luton, Beds. and Ragnall Hall, Notts., History of Parliament Online".historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ^"CRAWLEY, John (1703-67), of Stockwood Park, Luton, Beds."historyofparliamentonline.org.History of Parliament Online.Retrieved9 November2022.
- ^ab"Biography of Reason Mellish (1627-1688), and the Mellish, Condon, Rankin and Crawley families of Ragnall - The University of Nottingham".nottingham.ac.uk.
- ^Mellish, Mary; Gurney, Joseph (1786).The Whole Proceedings on Trial of an Ejectment, Between John Doe, on Several Demises of Mary Mellish, Spinster, and Others, Against Eliza Rankin, Spinster: At the Bar of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, on Wednesday the 10th, and Thursday the 11th Days of May, 1786, Before the Right Honourable Alexander Lord Loughborough, and the Rest of the Judges of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas: by a Special Jury of the County of Nottingham.J. Debrett.
- ^Griffiths, Ralph; Griffiths, George Edward (1786).The Monthly Review.R. Griffiths. pp. 395–396.
- ^"Articles from the Transactions of the Thoroton Society > The Manor of Dunham on Trent (1921)".nottshistory.org.uk.
- ^Foster, Joseph(1888–1892)..Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886.Oxford: Parker and Co – viaWikisource.
- ^Twist, A. F. (202)."Widening circles in finance, philanthropy and the arts. A study of the life of John Julius Angerstein 1735-1823, Chapter 11"(PDF).pure.uva.nl.University of Amsterdam. p. 202.
- ^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)
- ^abcdefBlaydes, Frederic Augustus (1889).Bedfordshire Notes and Queries.A. Ranson. p. 325.Retrieved8 November2022.
- ^Malta Family History - Index to old protestant cemetery, Naples
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