John Willoughby Crawford

John Willoughby Crawford QC (26 August[citation needed] 1817 – 13 May 1875) served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada from 1873 to 1875.

A lawyer by profession, Crawford served as president of the Royal Canadian Bank and was solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway.

[2] Crawford was member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for East Toronto from 1861 to 1863.

On the day his government resigned in 1873, The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald appointed Crawford Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

[2] His funeral service was conducted at St. James Cathedral with interment at a vault belonging to his wife's family.