Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew (1624 - 30 November 1697) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  at various times between 1654 and 1679 when he inherited the peerage Baron Crew

Baron Crew

Baron Crew, of Stene in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 20 April 1661 for the politician John Crew. He was the son of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons. Lord Crew was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He sat as Member...

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Crew was the son of John Crew, 1st Baron Crew

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene was an English Puritan politician, who sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War but was raised to a peerage by Charles II after the Restoration.-Career:...

 and his wife Jemima Waldegrave, daughter of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford

Lawford

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 Hall, Essex

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In 1656, Crew was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Northamptonshire

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 in the Second Protectorate Parliament

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. He was elected MP for Brackley

Brackley (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament

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In 1660, Crew was elected MP for Brackley in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Brackley for the Cavalier Parliament

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 in 1661. In 1679 he inherited the barony

Baron Crew

Baron Crew, of Stene in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 20 April 1661 for the politician John Crew. He was the son of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons. Lord Crew was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He sat as Member...

 on the death of his father.

Thomas Crew married firstly to Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir George Townshend, Bart., of Rainham Coounty, Norfolk, by whom he had surviving issue:

• Anne Crew (d. bef 1696), married to John Jolliff Esq., of Coston.
• Temperance Crew (d. 18 October 1728), married firstly to Rowland, son and heir of Sir Alston Bart of Odell and secondly to Sir John Wolstenholme of Enfield, 3rd baronet.

His lordship married secondly in 1674, Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet. By her, he had four daughters:

• Jemima Crew (d. 2 July 1728), married to Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent
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• Airmine Crew (d. 1728), married to Thomas Cartwright, Esq.
• Catherine Crew, married to Sir John Harper, 4th Baronet of Caulk. Their great-grandson Sir Harper, the 7th baronet, assumed by royal permission the surname of Crew only. His descendants would eventually settle upon the surname of Harpur-Crewe.
• Elizabeth Crew (d. 21 May 1756), married on 18 September 1721, to Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
  Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
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  . The marriage was childless.

Crew died at the age of 73. As he had no male issue, his fortune was devolved upon his daughters as co-heiresses, while the barony passed to his brother, Rev. Nathaniel Crew

Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew

Nathanial Crew, 3rd Baron Crew was Bishop of Oxford from 1671 to 1674, then Bishop of Durham from 1674 to 1721. As such he was one of the longest serving bishops of the Church of England....

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