Family and Education
b. c. 1598, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Crew of Nantwich, Cheshire and Steane and Temperance, da. and coh. of Reynold Bray of Steane; educ. G. Inn, entered 1615, called 1624; Magdalen, Oxf. matric. 26 Apr. 1616, aged 18. m. c.1623, Jemima, da. and coh. of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford Hall, Essex, 6s. (1 d.v.p.) Beds. Archives, L30/20/1. 2da. d. 12 Dec. 1679; will n.d. (c.1677), pr. 15 Dec. 1679. TNA, PROB 11/561.
Offices Held

Mbr., cttee of Both Kingdoms 1644 – 48; commr. for treaty of Uxbridge 1645, abuses in heraldry 1646, exclusion from sacrament 1646, bishops’ lands 1646, scandalous offences 1648, trade 1655 – 57, relief of Piedmontese Protestants 1656, accounts 1666; cllr. of state 25 Feb. – 31 May 1660.

Commr. for defence, 1642, assessment, 1643 – 48, 1657, Jan. 1660–1, sequestration, 1643, execution of ordinances, 1643, accounts, 1643, levying of money, 1643, appeals, Oxf. Univ. 1647, militia, Northants. 1648, Northants. and Westminster Mar. 1660, drainage Great Level 1649, visitation, Oxf. Univ. 1654, scandalous ministers, Northants. 1654, statutes, Durham college 1656, oyer and terminer, Midland circ. July 1660.

Associated with: Steane, Northants. and Lincoln’ Inn Fields, Mdx.
Likenesses

wash drawing by unknown artist, Sutherland collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxf.

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Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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