Edward Craufurd
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Edward Henry John Craufurd (9 December 1816 – 29 August 1887) was a Scottish Radical politician.
He was the eldest son of John Craufurd of Auchenames and Kerse in the counties of Renfrewshire and Ayr, Treasurer General of the Ionian Islands, and Sophia Marianne Churchill, daughter of Major General Churchill and great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole.
He was educated at
senior optime. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple
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
Baronet of Pencarrow and niece of James Wentworth Buller, MP for North Devon
.
He was a
Buteshire 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 Ayr Burghs from 1852 until 1874.
Sources
- Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
- Clan Crawford Association
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