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Crewe of Crewe, Baron (UK, 1806 - 1894)

Creation: let.pat. 25 Feb 1806

Extinct: 3 Jan 1894

Family name: Crewe

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th: Azure a Lion rampant Argent (Crewe); 2nd and 3rd: Argent a Cross Flory Azure charged with a Lion passant Or (Offley)

Crests:

1st: Out of a Ducal Coronet Or a Lion's Gamb Argent armed Gules (Crewe); 2nd: A demi Lion rampant guardant Or holding in the paws a Slip of Olive proper (Offley)

Supporters:

Dexter:  a Lion Argent gorged with a Collar Azure charged with three Roses Or;  Sinister:  a Griffin Sable wings elevated Argent beaked and legged Or

Motto:

Sequor Nec Inferior

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John [Crewe], 1st Baron Crewe of Crewe

1st son and heir John Crewe MP, of Crewe Hall, co. Chester (by his wife Elizabeth Shuttleworth, only dau. of Sir Richard Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe Hall, co. Lancaster, and Forcett, co. York), 1st son and heir of John Offley later Crewe, of Crewe Hall, co. Chester (by his wife Sarah Price, dau. of Morgan Price, of Nantgawared, co. Brecon), only son and heir of Anne Crewe (by her husband John Offley, of Madeley, co. Stafford), 2nd dau. and cohrss. of John Crewe, of Crewe Hall, co. Chester (by his wife Carew Gorges, dau. of Sir Arthur Gorges, of Gorges House, Chelsea, co. Middlesex), 1st son and heir of Sir Clippesby Crewe, of Crewe Hall, co. Chester (by his wife Jane Pulteney, 3rd dau. of Sir John Pulteney, of Pulteney and Misterton), 1st son and heir of Sir Ranulph Crewe MP, builder of Crewe Hall, co. Chester, Speaker of the House of Commons 1614-25 and Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1625-26, by his first wife Julia Clippesby, dau. and cohrss. of John Clippesby, of Clippesby, co. Norfolk.  Sir Ranulph was uncle of John [Crewe], 1st Baron Crewe of Stene.

born

27 Sep 1742

mar.

4 Apr 1766 Frances Greville (d. 23 Dec 1818;  bur. at Barthomley, co. Chester), dau. and cohrss. of Edward Waldegrave, of Lawford Hall, co. Essex, by his second wife Sarah Heigham, dau. of Clement Heigham, of Suffolk

children

1. Hon John Crewe, later 2nd Baron Crewe of Crewe

1. Hon (Elizabeth) Emma Crewe (dsp. 15 Feb 1850), mar. 21 Apr 1809 Foster Cunliffe later Cunliffe-Offley, of Madeley, co. Stafford (b. 17 Aug 1782; dvpsp. 19 Apr 1832), 1st son and heir ap. of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Bt., by his wife Harriet Kinloch, dau. of Sir David Kinloch of Gilmerton, 5th Bt.

died

28 Apr 1829

created

25 Feb 1806 Baron Crewe of Crewe, of Crewe in the County of Chester

suc. by

son

note

High Sheriff of Cheshire 1764;  Member of Parliament (Whig) for Stafford 1765-68 and for Cheshire 1768-1802

John [Crewe], 2nd Baron Crewe of Crewe

bapt.

1772

mar.

5 May 1807 Henrietta Maria Anne Walker-Hungerford (d. 14 Jan 1820), dau. of George Walker-Hungerford, of Calne, co. Wiltshire, by his wife Henrietta Maria Keate, dau. of John Hungerford Keate

children

1. Hon Hungerford Crewe, later 3rd Baron Crewe of Crewe

1. Hon Henrietta Maria Crewe (d. 4 Feb 1879)

2. Maria Hungerford Crewe (dvp. an infant 1812)

3. Hon Annabella Hungerford Crewe (b. 13 Jun 1814; d. 24 Feb 1874), mar. 31 Jul 1851 Richard Monckton [Milnes], 1st Baron Houghton, and had issue

died

4 Dec 1835

suc. by

son

note

Major Gen 1808; Lieut Gen 1813; General 1830; retired from the Army 1831

Hungerford [Crewe], 3rd Baron Crewe of Crewe

born

10 Aug 1812

died

unm. and s.p. 3 Jan 1893 (bur. at Barthomley, co. Chester)

note

FSA 1840; FRS 1841

On the death of the 3rd Baron Crewe of Crewe the Barony of Crewe of Crewe became extinct.  Crewe Hall and the family estates passed to his nephew, Robert Offley Ashburton [Milnes later Crewe-Milnes], 2nd Baron Houghton, later (1895) 1st Earl of Crewe and (1911) 1st Marquess of Crewe.

 First written 24 Oct 2020

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