Thursday 15 August 2013
233 Robert Crawford
Constituency : Harwich 1851-2, City of London 1857-74
Robert was the son of a London MP . He was a merchant in India and lived in Bombay for a number of years. He also had interests in railways. He was a member of the British North American Association. He was first elected for Harwich in 1851 when the sitting member was unseated on petition but he suffered the same fate himself because the poll had closed three minutes early. He was then proposed for the City of London but he declined the nomination. He felt ready in 1857 and was duly elected.
He was a frequent speaker in the House, as one would expect mainly on finance and India.
In 1864 Robert chaired the public meeting to prepare for Garibaldi's visit.In the Second Reform Bill debates Robert introduced a clause to extend to 25 miles the residential qualification for City voters. In 1869 he became a governor of the Bank of England.
Robert went out in 1874 when the Liberals lost three out of the four City seats they had been holding. He died in 1889 aged 76.
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