Brass Crosby

Brass Crosby (8 May 1725 – 1793) was an English radical lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.

No further attempts had ever been made to prevent the publication of Parliamentary debates, facilitating the emergence of Hansard, until May 2009 when Carter-Ruck, a law firm, attempted to stop The Guardian newspaper from reporting a question asked in the House by Paul Farrelly MP, or to report that it had received such an injunction.

[6] In July 1771, the newly constructed obelisk at St George's Circus in Southwark was given an additional inscription.

[7] Crosby died in 1793 at his house in Chatham Place, Blackfriars Bridge, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Chelsfield, near Orpington, Kent, where a monument was erected to his memory.

The London Borough of Bromley has now erected a blue plaque to Crosby outside his former home, Court Lodge, in Church Road, Chelsfield.