Baron Crewe, of Crewe in the County of Chester, was a title in the

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. It was created on 25 February 1806 for the politician and landowner John Crewe, of

Crewe Hall Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire,Pevsner & Hubbard, p. 22 it is listed at grade I. Built in 1615 ...

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. This branch of the Crewe (or Crew) family descended from Sir Ranulph Crewe (1558–1646),

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and

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. He was the brother of Sir Thomas Crewe, also Speaker of the House of Commons and the father of

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene (1598 – 12 December 1679) was an English lawyer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. He was a Puritan and sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civ ...

(a title which became extinct in 1721; see Baron Crew). Sir Ranulph's grandson John Crewe was the father of Ann Crewe, who married John Offley, of Madeley Manor,

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

. Their son

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assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Crewe in lieu of his patronymic in 1708. He sat as a

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for

. His son John Crewe also represented Cheshire in Parliament. The latter was the father of the first Baron Crewe. Lord Crewe died in 1829 and was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was a General in the

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. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the third Baron, in 1894. Master Crewe by Joshua Reynolds

The Honourable Annabella, daughter of the second Baron, married

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, FRS (19 June 1809 – 11 August 1885) was an English poet, patron of literature and a politician who strongly supported social justice. Background and education Milnes was born in London, the son ...

. Their son

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succeeded to the Crewe estates on the death of his maternal uncle in 1894 and assumed the same year the additional surname of Crewe by Royal licence. He became a distinguished

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politician and was created Earl of Crewe in 1895 and Marquess of Crewe in 1911. See the latter title for more information. Richard Crewe, brother of the first Baron, was a Major-General in the British Army. His great-grandson Sir Charles Preston Crewe (1858–1936) was a Brigadier-General in the South African Defence Force and a member of the

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of the

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Barons Crewe (1806)

John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (27 September 1742 – 28 April 1829), of Crewe Hall in Cheshire, was a British politician. He is chiefly remembered for his sponsorship of the Parliament Act 1782 ( 22 Geo. 3. c. 41), also known as 'Crewe's Act', ...

(1742–1829) *

John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe (bap. 1772 – 4 December 1835) was an English soldier and a peer. He formed part of the first British embassy to China, and rose to the rank of General. Becoming estranged from the majority of his family, he spe ...

(1772–1835) * Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812–1894)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crewe Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1806 Peerages created for UK MPs