Returned for Cheshire in 1722, ‘on the Tory interest backed by the non jurors’,1Ld. Warrington to Sunderland, 9 Mar. 1722, Sunderland (Blenheim) mss. Crewe was defeated in 1727. In 1747 he was one of the leaders of the Tory opposition to the Leveson Gowers in Staffordshire, announcing that he would stand for Newcastle-under-Lyme against Baptist Leveson Gower, promising ‘to bring £5,000 with him’,2Baptist Leveson Gower to Bedford, 27 June 1747, Bedford mss. but desisting. When at the same general election his son, John Crewe, was put up for the county, Lord Gower complained that ‘a large body sent by Mr Crewe of Cheshire, committed many outrages at the county election’.3Add. 32712, f. 288.
He died 25 Aug. 1749, leaving an estate of £15,000 p.a.4Gent. Mag. 1749, p. 429.