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Crawshay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Crawshay Bailey (1789–1872), English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales *David Crawshay (born 1979), Australian rower *Eliot Crawshay-Williams (1879–1962), British author, officer, and Liberal Party politician *Geoffrey Crawshay (1892–1954), Welsh soldier and social benefactor who is most notable for his connections to rugby union *Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge (1890–1969), Welsh born international rugby union player *Richard Crawshay (1739–1810), London iron merchant and then South Wales ironmaster *Robert Thompson Crawshay (1817–1879), British ironmaster *Rose Mary Crawshay (1828–1907), English philanthropist, wife of Robert Thompson Crawshay *William Crawshay I (1764–1834), South Wales industrialist *William Crawshay II (1788–1867), the son of William Crawshay I See also *Crawshay's zebra Crawshay's zebra (''Equus quagga crawshayi'') is a subspecies of the plains z ...
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Robert Thompson Crawshay
Robert Thompson Crawshay (3 March 1817 – 10 May 1879) was a British ironmaster. Life Crawshay, youngest son of William Crawshay by his second wife, Bella Thompson, was born at Cyfarthfa Ironworks. He was educated at Dr. Prichard's school at Llandaff, and from a very early age manifested interest in his father's ironworks, and spent much of his time among them. As years increased he determined to learn practically the business of an ironworker, and in turn assisted in the puddling, the battery, and the rolling mills; he carried this so far that he even exchanged his own diet for that of the workmen. On the death of his brother William by drowning at the old passage of the Severn he became acting manager of the ironworks, and at a later period when his brother Henry removed to Newnham he came into the working control of the entire establishment. On 15 May 1846 he married the 18 year old Rose Mary Yeates in Oxfordshire. She became the mistress of the 72 roomed Cyfarthfa Castle ...
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David Crawshay
David William Crawshay (born 11 August 1979) is an Australian former rower, an eleven-time national champion, an Olympic champion and medalist at World Championships. He represented Australia in rowing at three consecutive Olympic games from Athens 2004 to London 2012. Club and state rowing Born in Carlton, Victoria, Crawshay attended Melbourne Grammar School. His senior rowing has been with the Mercantile Rowing Club based on the Yarra River in Melbourne. Crawshay's first state selection as Victoria's single sculls representative to contest the President's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships came in 2002. He then contested the President's Cup in 2003 & 2004. From 2007 he won each President's Cup he contested – 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 he rowed in the Victorian men's senior eight competing for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. The 2015 crew were victorious. Crawshay was initially selected to represent Vict ...
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Crawshay Bailey
Crawshay Bailey (1789 – 9 January 1872) was an English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales. Early life Bailey was born in 1789 in Great Wenham, Suffolk, the son of John Bailey, of Wakefield and his wife Susannah. His parents had moved from Normanton, near Wakefield in around 1780 by which time they had already had at least three children (Ann, Elizabeth and William). Crawshay was the youngest of six children to be born in Great Wenham (the others being Susan, Joseph, John, and Thomas). His mother, Susannah was the sister of Richard Crawshay, the ironmaster based at Cyfarthfa Castle near Merthyr Tydfil where Crawshay Bailey came at the age of twelve to work for his rich uncle in 1801, joining his elder brother Joseph. In 1809 he was a witness to his rich uncle's will, in which he was bequeathed the sum of £1000, . Early business career: the iron master Crawshay Bailey's early career was overshadowed by that of his elder brother, Joseph, later Sir ...
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Geoffrey Crawshay
Capt. Geoffrey Cartland Hugh Crawshay KStJ (20 June 1892 – 8 November 1954) was a Welsh soldier and social benefactor who is most notable for his connections to rugby union. He was also a Liberal Party politician. Early life and military service Born in 1892 to Codrington Fraser Crawshay in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, he was the great-great-great-grandson son of Richard Crawshay the ironmaster who oversaw the first major expansion of Cyfarthfa Ironworks. Crawshay was educated at Wellington College and later University College of South Wales, before taking up an apprenticeship at an ironworks in Cwmbran. In 1914 he joined the 3rd Battalions of the Welch Regiment before being transferred to the newly formed Welsh Guards. While with the Welsh Guards he obtained the rank of captain and in 1915 he was severely injured in his shoulder at the Battle of Loos. Crawshay remained with the regiment until 1924 creating many social societies, including the Welch Guard Choir and the regiment r ...
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Eliot Crawshay-Williams
Eliot Crawshay-Williams (4 September 1879 – 11 May 1962), was a British author, army officer, and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) and Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Lloyd George, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Early life Crawshay-Williams was the son of Arthur John Williams, a Welsh barrister and politician. He was educated at Eton College, Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford, Trinity College, University of Oxford, Oxford. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 26 May 1900, and promoted to Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant on 25 April 1902. Election to Parliament At the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election he stood as a Liberal Party (UK) candidate in the Chorley (UK Parliament constituency), Chorley constituency in Lancashire. He had been employed by Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office from 1906 to 1908. He was elected at the ...
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Richard Crawshay
Richard Crawshay (1739 – 27 June 1810) was a London iron merchant and then South Wales ironmaster; he was one of ten known British millionaires in 1799. Early life and marriage Richard Crawshay was born in Normanton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Initially starting work aged 16, working for Mr Bicklewith of York Yard, Thames Street, London (to whom he was apprenticed) in a bar iron warehouse in London, he became sole proprietor of the business on Bicklewith's retirement in 1763. He married Mary Bourne in 1763 and they had a son William and three daughters, Anne, Elizabeth and Charlotte. Charlotte married Benjamin Hall, and became the mother of Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover. Iron importation and ironworks proprietorship By the 1770s he was a leading London iron merchant, dealing mainly in Swedish and Russian iron. The firm was Crawshay and Moser in 1774, but Crawshay, Cornwell and Moser in 1784. The business still existed as R & W Crawshay in 1816. By 1775, he w ...
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Rose Mary Crawshay
Rose Mary Crawshay (1828–1907) was a British philanthropist. She commissioned free libraries and a non-fiction prize for women. Life Crawshay was born Rose Mary Yeates in Caversham Grove in Oxfordshire to Wilson Yeates and his first wife. She married the 29-year-old Robert Thompson Crawshay on 15 May 1846 at St Peter's Church, Caversham. He was the last of the Merthyr Tydfil ironmasters. She became the mistress of the 72 roomed and 15 towered Cyfarthfa Castle. The marriage was not happy but they did have five children William Thompson in 1847, Rose Harriette Thompson the following year, Henrietta Louise in 1851, Robert Thompson in 1853 and Richard Frederick in 1859. The following year her husband had a stroke which left him deaf. She involved herself in public life and encouraged the idea of reforming matrimonial law. She was not keen on Welsh culture and she joined the National Society for Women's Suffrage founded by Lydia Becker in 1867. She became a Vice President of the Br ...
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Crawshay's Zebra
Crawshay's zebra (''Equus quagga crawshayi'') is a subspecies of the plains zebra native to eastern Zambia, east of the Luangwa River, Malawi, southeastern Tanzania, and northern Mozambique south to the Gorongoza District. Crawshay's zebras can be distinguished from Plains Zebra#Taxonomy, other subspecies of plains zebras in that its lower incisors lack an infundibulum (tooth), infundibulum. Crawshay's zebra has very narrow stripes compared to other forms of the plains zebra. References Images File:Crawshay's Zebra.jpg, Crawshay's zebra in South Luangwa National Park showing the typical narrow stripe pattern File:Crawshays_zebra_shadowed_AZH2010_533.jpg, Some Crawshays have slight shadow stripes File:Crawshays_zebra_foal_AZH2010_530.jpg, Crawshay's zebra foal Zebras Mammals of Zambia Mammals of Malawi {{horse-stub ...
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William Crawshay I
William Crawshay (1764 – 11 August 1834) was a British industrialist. Born in South Wales, he spent most of his life in London. He was the only surviving son of Richard Crawshay, one of the richest men in the United Kingdom. He had three sisters, including Charlotte, who married Benjamin Hall, also an industrialist, making William Crawshay the uncle of Sir Benjamin Hall, politician and reformer. William took over the Cyfarthfa Ironworks from his father, but it was never his primary concern, and he continued to live in London, where he took charge of the company's selling agency.Archives Wales: Swansea University - Crawshay, Robert Thompson
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William Crawshay II
William Crawshay II (27 March 1788 – 4 August 1867) was the son of William Crawshay I, the owner of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. William Crawshay II became an ironmaster when he took over the business from his father. He was known as the 'Iron King'. He was responsible for the building of Cyfarthfa Castle (now a museum) in the 1820s. In 1847, he retired to Caversham Park in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire), where he died 20 years later. After a fire in 1850, Caversham Park was rebuilt by Crawshay to a design by Horace Jones G. C. Boase''Jones, Sir Horace (1819–1887)''rev. Valerie Scott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 (Subscription required) who much later also designed London's Tower Bridge. His son, Robert Thompson Crawshay Robert Thompson Crawshay (3 March 1817 – 10 May 1879) was a British ironmaster. Life Crawshay, youngest son of William Crawshay by his second wife, Bella Thompson, was born at Cyfarthfa Ironworks. He was educated at ...
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Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge
Lieutenant-colonel Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge (21 July 1879 – 28 August 1965) known as ''"The Bird"'' or "''Birdie''", was a Welsh born British Army officer and international rugby union player who was capped for South Africa and was a member of the Barbarians in that side's first international, played against Wales in 1915. He was also the founder of the Army Rugby Union. Early life Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge was born 21 July 1879 in Llanthewy Court, Monmouth, near Abergavenny.1881 Wales Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 5233; Folio: 5; Page: 3; Line: ; GSU roll: 1342260. He was the eldest son of Joseph Partridge (born Beaufort House, Beaufort, Monmouth 1843) and his wife Jessie (née James, born 1846 on the border near Kington Herefordshire). He had three younger brothers. His cousin, war hero, Richard Crawshay Bailey Partridge shared his Crawshay middle name. Their Suffolk-born grandfather, William Partridge, ironmaster, manager of the Beaufort Ironworks who marri ...
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