Sir Claude William Champion de Crespigny, 3rd Baronet, (25 June 1818 – 11 August 1868) was an English first-class

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er and British Army officer. The son of Augustus James Champion de Crespigny, he was born at

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in June 1818. His father died from yellow fever in 1825, with his grandfather Sir William Champion de Crespigny passing away in 1829. Upon the death of his grandfather, he succeeded him as the 3rd Baronet of the Champion de Crespigny baronets. He was educated at Winchester College, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1843. He made scores of 0 and 3 in the match, being dismissed by Richard Blaker and

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respectively; his brother, Frederick, was in the Cambridge side. Champion de Crespigny was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Essex in August 1852. In the same year he married Mary Tyrell, daughter of Sir John Tyrell, 2nd Baronet. He was commissioned as a lieutenant the 1st Essex Volunteer Rifles in September 1859, formed in response to the

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invasion scare in 1859. In January 1860, he was promoted to

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, before being made a

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in June of the same year. He also held the office of receiver-general of the Droits of Admiralty. Champion de Crespigny died at Wivenhoe Hall in Wivenhoe in August 1868.Death of Sir Claude Crespigny, Bart.. '' Chelmsford Chronicle''. 14 August 1868. p. 5 He was succeeded as the 4th Baronet by his son, Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Champion de Crespigny, Claude 1818 births 1868 deaths People from Mayfair Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Deputy Lieutenants of Essex Essex Regiment officers Military personnel from Middlesex 19th-century British Army personnel