Richard Crowder Explained

Sir Richard Budden Crowder, QC (17 May 1796 – 5 December 1859)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician and judge.

He was elected at a by-election in 1849 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liskeard in Cornwall, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in March 1854 to take an appointment as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas.[2] Whilst in Parliament, he was simultaneously Judge Advocate of the Fleet from 1849 to 1854.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "L", part 3 . Leigh Rayment's House of commons pages . https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034529/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/lcommons3.htm . 29 October 2008 . usurped . 2 December 2009.
  2. Book: Craig, F. W. S. . British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 . 2nd . 1989 . F. W. S. Craig . First published 1977 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 189 . 0-900178-26-4.
  3. Book: Sainty, J. C. . 1975 . Admiralty Officials 1660-1870 . Athlone Press, University of London . 80 . 048517144-9.

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