James Sharman Crawford (1812 – 28 April 1878) was the

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

, 1874–1878.` He was a son of

William Sharman Crawford William Sharman Crawford (1780–1861) was an Irish landowner who, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, championed a democratic franchise, a devolved legislature for Ireland, and the interests of the Irish tenant farmer. As a Radical represe ...

who had unsuccessfully contested the constituency in

1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...

. He was also a member of a

landed gentry The landed gentry, or the ''gentry'', is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate. While distinct from, and socially below, the British peerage, th ...

family.Burke's Landed Gentry, 5th edition (1871) Volume II, P 1251

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* UK MPs 1874–1880 1812 births 1878 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Down constituencies (1801–1922) {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub