Richard Crawley (26 December 1840 – 30 March 1893)[1] was a Welsh writer and academic, best known for his translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.
[2] Crawley was born at a Bryngwyn rectory on 26 December 1840, the eldest son of William Crawley, Archdeacon of Monmouth, by his wife, Mary Gertrude, third daughter of Sir Love Jones Parry of Madryn, Carnarvonshire.
[3] Called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 7 June 1869, Crawley never practised; in poor health, he lived abroad for many years.
In April 1875, he became director of a life assurance company, and that business largely occupied him until his death on 30 March 1893.
In 1868 he published Horse and Foot, a satire on contemporary literary effort in the manner of Alexander Pope.