Thomas Pearson Crosland (29 December 1815 – 8 March 1868) was a
British Liberal Party politician and woollen manufacturer.
Family and early life
Crosland was the son of George Crosland and Mary Anne Pearson, the latter of whom died just four months after his birth. In early life, he worked, alongside his brothers, working for the family business George Crosland & Sons.
Crosland married three times, first to Ann Kilner, daughter of William Kilner in 1841. After she died in 1845, he remarried to Matilda Roche Cousins in 1849 who bore him a son, George William Crosland (c1852–1902);
and then, after her death in 1853, Julia Cousins, with whom he had another eight children:
* Ada Pearson Crosland (1855–1919)
* Thomas Pearson Crosland (1856–1932)
* Julia Pearson Crosland (1857– )
* John Pearson Crosland (1860–1946)
* Stanley Pearson Crosland (1861–1929)
* Arthur Pearson Crosland (1862– )
* Marion Pearson Crosland (1865–1938)
* Alfred Pearson Crosland (1866–1867)
Political career
He was elected MP, as a staunch
Whig Liberal and supporter of free trade,
for
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...
in
1865
Events
January–March
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but did not serve a full term before his death in 1868.
Crosland's brother,
Joseph Crosland
Sir Joseph Crosland (24 October 1826 – 27 August 1904) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Huddersfield from 4 February 1893 to 13 July 1895. He had contested the seat in the previous three general electi ...
, became the seat's first Conservative MP in 1893.
Activities
Crosland was a member of the
Mechanics' Institute, and a patron of the
Yorkshire Penny Bank. He was also a proprietor of Huddersfield College, and patron of the Naturalist Society. He also held the role of master
freemason
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
.
Other appointments
Crosland was appointed an
Improvement Commissioner from 1848 to 1852, and later a waterworks commissioner. In 1852, he was named a
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
and, in 1864, a
Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
He was made a Captain of the 2nd Company in 1860, a Major in 1862, a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1864, and an honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion of West York Rifle Volunteers in 1866.
In 1863, he was appointed president of the Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce.
References
External links
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Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Deputy Lieutenants of the West Riding of Yorkshire
UK MPs 1865–1868
1815 births
1868 deaths
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