John Crew, 1st Baron Crew

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene (1598-12 December, 1679) was an English Puritan politician, who sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War but was raised to a peerage by Charles II after the Restoration.

The son of Sir Thomas Crew, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1623 to 1625, he followed his father into Parliament. He was first elected Member for Amersham in 1625, and also subsequently represented Brackley in the Parliament of 1626 and the Short Parliament, Banbury in the Parliament of 1628-9 and Northamptonshire in the Long Parliament. He voted against the attainder of Strafford, but supported Parliament when Civil War came, although he was a moderate, suspicious of the Army and supported the Self-Denying Ordinance. He was chosen chairman of the Commons Committee on Religion, was one of the parliamentary commissioners sent to negotiate with the Royalists at Uxbridge in 1645, and was one of those entrusted with the custody of the King at Holdenby House after the Scots handed him over to Parliament in 1647. However, the following year the army leaders, knowing that he would oppose the trial of the King, had him arrested and he was excluded from his parliamentary seat in Pride's Purge.

He returned to the Commons in the First Protectorate Parliament as MP for Northamptonshire but was once again excluded by the government. Despite this, he was summoned by the Lord Protector to sit in his new House of Lords, which first met in 1658. After the collapse of the restored Rump he resumed his seat in the briefly resurrected unpurged House, then was elected once more for Northamptonshire in the Convention Parliament, was appointed to the Council of State, and was one of the delegation sent to meet Charles II at The Hague and arrange his return to the throne.

On 20 April, 1661, he was created Baron Crew of Stene in recognition of his efforts to promote the Restoration, and thereafter retired from active politics. A wealthy man, he had bought a large house in Lincoln's Inn Fields during the 1650s, and was a well-regarded host; Samuel Pepys, who was a retainer of his son-in-law Edward Montagu and mentions him many times in his diaries, was a frequent guest.

He married Jemima Waldegrave, daughter of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford Hall in Essex. Their children included:
* Sir Thomas Crew (1624-1697), who succeeded his father in the peerage but died without issue
* Rev. Nathaniel Crew (1633-1721), Bishop of Durham, who succeeded his older brother as 3rd Baron
* Jemima, Countess of Sandwich (1625-1674), who married Edward Montagu, later Earl of Sandwich, in 1642.
* Anne, who married Sir Henry Wright, 1st Baronet, of Dagenham, Essex.Lord Crew died in 1679.

References

* "Burke's Extinct Peerage" (London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831) [http://books.google.com/books?id=aB0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=john+crew+1st+baron&source=web&ots=dhlefX61n-&sig=JLRsznNuxxiws12OeyYfgVHZSYY#PPP9,M1]
*D Brunton & D H Pennington, "Members of the Long Parliament" (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
*"Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803" (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
* Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p17638.htm#i176377 www.thepeerage.com]
* Mark Noble, "Memoirs of several persons and families... allied to or descended from... the Protectorate-House of Cromwell" (Birmingham: Pearson & Rollason, 1784) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qFQDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=mark+noble+memoirs+of+several+persons+and+families+allied+to+or+descended+from+the+%22protectorate+house%22+of+cromwell+birmingham+pearson+%26+rollason+1784&source=web&ots=HHLqC0IlNm&sig=GmM5DZjMBx8bQQEzATG2MzaJssM]
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