CRAVEN, Fulwar (elder son of Rev. John Craven of Chilton house, Wiltshire, who d. 19 June 1804). b. 25 June 1782; captain 1 dragoons 1803–1806; owner of race horses; won the Oaks with Deception 1839; one of the most notable and eccentric characters on the turf. d. Brockhampton park, Gloucs. 14 April 1860. H. Corbet’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 99–108; W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 138–42.
CRAVEN, Keppel Richard (youngest child of 6 Baron Craven 1737–91). b. 1 June 1779; ed. at Harrow; resided with his mother at Naples 1805; chamberlain to Princess of Wales 1814–15; purchased a large convent in the mountains near Salerno, South Italy, and lived there 1834; author of A tour through the southern provinces of the kingdom of Naples 1821; Excursions in the Abruzzi and northern provinces of Naples 2 vols. 1838. d. Naples 24 June 1851. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach (1826), i, 72, 85, 364, ii, 74, 84, 95, 173, portrait; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii, 124–39 (1855).
CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, James Lindsay, Earl of. b. Balcarres, Fifeshire 24 April 1783; succeeded as 7 Earl of Balcarres 27 March 1825; created Baron Wigan in peerage of United Kingdom 5 July 1826; had Earldom of Crawford (dormant since 1808) confirmed to him by House of Lords 1848 and thus became 24 Earl of Crawford and premier Earl on union roll of Scotland; claimed Dukedom of Montrose 1855. d. Dunecht house, Aberdeen 15 Dec. 1869.
CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, Earl of (eld. child of the preceding). b. Muncaster Castle 16 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; succeeded 15 Dec. 1869; collected from all parts of the world the famous Crawford library consisting of more than 50,000 books and MSS., the first portion of which was sold for £19,000 in 1887, one book the Mazarin Bible fetched £2650; author of Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land 2 vols. 1838; Lives of the Lindsays 3 vols. 1840, 3 ed. 1858; Ballads, songs and poems translated from the German 1841; Progression by antagonism, a theory 1846; Sketches of the history of Christian art 3 vols. 1847, new ed. 2 vols. 1885; Scepticism, a retrogressive movement in theology 1861; Etruscan inscriptions analysed 1872; The Earldom of Mar in sunshine and in shade during five hundred years 2 vols. 1882. d. Villa Eualenina, Florence 13 Dec. 1880. bur. at Dunecht house, April 1881, personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1881. Athenæum 25 Dec. 1880 p. 865; I.L.N. lxxxi, 124 (1882).
Note.—His body was stolen April 1881 by Charles Soutar a ratcatcher, but the theft was not discovered until Dec. 1881, the body was found on the farm of Dumbreck near Dunecht house 18 July 1882 and buried in family vault under Wigan parish church 26 July 1882. C. Soutar was sentenced to 5 years penal servitude 24 Oct. 1882.
CRAWFORD, Abraham (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Crawford, V. of Lismore, co. Waterford). b. Lismore, Oct. 1788; entered navy 19 May 1800; captain 5 Jany. 1829; retired captain 5 Jany. 1849; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865. d. Teignmouth, Devon 17 Jany. 1869. Reminiscences of a naval officer by Capt. A. Crawford, R.N. 2 vols. 1851.
CRAWFORD, Edmund Thornton (son of Mr. Crawford of Cowden near Dalkeith, land surveyor). b. Cowden 1806; landscape and marine painter; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1848; one of the greatest landscape painters in Scotland; contributed many pictures to Royal Scottish Academy 1831–77; lived at Lasswade near Edinburgh 1858 to death. d. Lasswade 27 Sep. 1885. bur. in new cemetery at Dalkeith.
CRAWFORD, George Morland. b. Chelsfield court lodge, Kent 1816; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; Paris correspondent of Daily News 1850 to death; a severe censurer of the Imperial government; very intimate with Thiers, Gambetta and Floquet; stung by a wasp in the carotid artery, Oct. 1885. d. from blood poisoning in Paris 23 Nov. 1885. Daily News 26 Nov. 1885 p. 3, 28 Nov. p. 3; Pall Mall Gazette 26 Nov. 1885 p. 11, 27 Nov. p. 3, portrait 9 Dec. p. 5.
CRAWFORD, John. b. Greenock 31 Aug. 1816; a house painter at Alloa 1834 to death; author of Doric lays, being snatches of song and ballad 2 vols. 1850–60; committed suicide at Alloa 13 Dec. 1873. Memorials of the town and parish of Alloa, by the late John Crawford with memoir of the author by Rev. Charles Rogers 1874.
CRAWFORD, Joseph Tucker. Consul general in Island of Cuba, April 1842 to death; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. d. Havannah 21 July 1864.