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).