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.
CRAUFURD, James (eld. son of Archibald Clifford Blackwell Craufurd of Ardmillan, Ayrshire). b. Havant, Hants. 1805; ed. at Ayr academy and at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; admitted advocate 1829; sheriff of Perthshire 14 March 1849; solicitor general for Scotland 16 Nov. 1853; lord of session 10 Jany. 1855 to death with courtesy title of Lord Ardmillan; lord of justiciary 16 June 1855 to death. d. 18 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1876. Journal of jurisprudence xx, 538–9 (1876); Graphic xiv, 308 (1876), portrait.
CRAVEN, Louisa, Countess of (youngest dau. of John Brunton 1750–1832, manager of the Norwich theatre). b. Norwich 21 Jany. 1779; made her first appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1803 as Lady Townley in the Provoked Husband; made her last appearance at Covent Garden 21 Oct. 1807 as Clara Sedley in The Rage. (m. 12 Dec. 1807 Wm. Craven 1 Earl of Craven, he was b. 1 Sep. 1770 and d. 30 July 1825). d. Hampstead Marshall, Newbury 27 Aug. 1860. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i, 94–102 (1844), portrait; British Stage ii, 241 (1818), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor xiii, 3 (1818), portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany xviii, 249–51 (1845).
CRAVEN, William Craven, 2 Earl of. b. 18 July 1809; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 30 July 1825; knight of the griffin at the Eglinton tournament 28 to 31 Aug. 1839; lord lieut. of Warws. 29 March 1854 to 1856; devoted great attention to coursing and held spring and autumn meetings at Ashdown hills on his own property. d. Royal hotel, Scarborough 25 Aug. 1866. Baily’s Mag. viii, 327–9 (1864), portrait; Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton tournament (1843), portrait.
CRAVEN, George Grimston Craven, 3 Earl of. b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1841; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 25 Aug. 1866; high steward of Newbury, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1869; lord lieut. of Berks. 11 Aug. 1881 to death; master of the old Berkshire hounds, a steeple chaser, continued the Ashdown coursing meeting. d. Ashdown park, Berks. 7 Dec. 1883. bur. Binley churchyard near Coventry 13 Dec. Baily’s Mag. xxii, 187 (1872), portrait.