Frederick George Crouch (1 February 1843 – 1 January 1922) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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to merchant William Crouch and Caroline Hart. He arrived in

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in 1854 and opened a store on Richmond Road in

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. He also had interests in northern New South Wales, serving as alderman and mayor of

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. On 7 January 1869 he married Ada Rebecca Gregory, with whom he had eleven children. Crouch was elected to the

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in 1887 as a Protectionist member for

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, but he did not run for re-election in 1889. In 1894 he moved to Randwick, where he died in 1922.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crouch, Frederick 1843 births 1922 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians English emigrants to colonial Australia