Edward Henry John Craufurd (9 December 1816 – 29 August 1887) was a Scottish

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politician. He was the eldest son of John Craufurd of Auchenames and Kerse in the counties of

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and

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, Treasurer General of the Ionian Islands, and Sophia Marianne Churchill, daughter of Major General Churchill and great-granddaughter of Sir

Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (; 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the ''de facto'' first Prim ...

. He was educated at

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, where he obtained a scholarship in 1840 and graduated as 12th senior optime. He was called to the bar at the

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in 1845 and practised on the Home Circuit and attended the Surrey Sessions. He was editor of ''The Legal Examiner'' In 1860 he married Frances, daughter of the Rev William Molesworth, Rector of St Breock, Cornwall, and sister of the Rev Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th Baronet of Pencarrow and niece of

James Wentworth Buller James Wentworth Buller (1 October 1798 – 13 March 1865) of Downes, Crediton, Devon, was a British Whig Member of Parliament for Exeter, in Devon, from 1830 to 1835, and for North Devon from 1857 to 1865. Origins He was the son of James B ...

, MP for

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for

Buteshire The County of Bute (), also known as Buteshire, is a historic county and registration county of Scotland. Now replaced by Argyll and Bute for the Isle of Bute, with the Argyll and Bute Council. The Isle of Arran and The Cumbraes are now ...

and a JP for Ayrshire. he was a member of the English Law Amendment Society and the Scottish Society for promoting the Amendment of the Law. He promoted the Scotch Affirmation Act, the Jurors Affirmation Act and the Judgments Extension Act 1868. He was Member of Parliament for

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from 1852 until 1874.

Sources

*Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
Clan Crawford Association

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* 1816 births 1887 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deputy lieutenants of Buteshire Members of the Inner Temple {{Scotland-UK-MP-stub