Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing (16 July 1802 – 3 July 1887) was a

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politician who sat in the

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from 1857 to 1874. Crum-Ewing was born Humphrey Crum, the son of Alexander Crum of

Thornliebank Thornliebank ( Scots: ''Thonliebank'', Scottish Gaelic: ''Bruach nan Dealgan'') is a suburban area in East Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, it is located on the Auldhouse Burn about s ...

, Renfrewshire and his wife Jane Maclae, daughter of Walter Ewing Maclae of Cathkin. His brother was the chemist

Walter Crum Walter Crum FRS (1796–1867) was a Scottish chemist and businessman. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1844. Life He was born in Glasgow, the second son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank, a merchant there, and of Jane, the eldest da ...

. He was educated at

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. In 1853, he assumed the name of Ewing in accordance with the will of his uncle

James Ewing of Strathleven James Ewing of Strathleven MP FRSE LLD (1775–1853) was Lord Provost of Glasgow (1832–1833), and MP for Glasgow (1832–1835), a plantation owner, slave-holder and West Indies merchant. Family and early life Ewing was born in Glasgow on 5 ...

. He was the owner of properties in the West Indies, chairman of the West Indian Association of Glasgow and a director of the Colonial Company of London. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire and J.P. for Dumbartonshire, Argyllshire, Lanarkarkshire, and Renfrewshire.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
/ref> Crum-Ewing stood unsuccessfully for Paisley in April 1857, but was elected Member of Parliament for Paisley in November 1857. He held the seat until 1874. He was Lord Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire from 23 February 1874 until his death in 1887 at the age of 84.Peter Beauclerk Dewar ''Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain''
/ref> Crum-Ewing married Helen Dick, daughter of the Rev. John Dick of Glasgow in 1826.

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* 1802 births 1887 deaths Scottish Liberal Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 Lord-Lieutenants of Dunbartonshire {{Scotland-Liberal-UK-MP-stub