Constituency Dates
Cirencester 1768 – 1774
Liverpool 1837 – 1847
Family and Education
b. c. 1745, o.s. of Thomas Estcourt Cresswell. m. (1) July 1771, Mary (d. 30 Sept. 1772), da. and h. of Samuel Wotton of Speechwick Park, Devon, 1da.; (2) Mary Gregory of Sherston, Wilts., 5s. suc. fa. 1788.
Address
Main residences: Bibury, nr. Cirencester, Glos.; Pinkney Park, Wilts.
biography text

Cresswell was returned at Cirencester after a contest against the Bathurst interest. In Parliament he voted regularly with Administration. There is no record of his having spoken in the House. In 1774 he was defeated at Cirencester.

He died 4 July 1823 ‘at a very advanced age, at Bath, whither he had been removed ... by order of the lord chancellor’.1Gent. Mag. 1823, ii. 93.

Author
M.M.D.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Notes
  • 1. Gent. Mag. 1823, ii. 93.