Robert Wigram Crawford
Robert Wigram Crawford (18 April 1813 – 30 July 1889) was a British East India merchant, Governor of the Bank of England, and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874.
He then headed the firm of Crawford, Colvin, and Co., East India Merchants of London.
[2] Crawford stood for parliament at Harwich in 1851, where he was elected Member of Parliament when the sitting member was unseated on petition, but was himself displaced on petition because it was alleged that the poll had closed three minutes before the legal hour.
The caricature hangs on the fifth floor of Norman Shaw North, a building which houses many MPs.
This article about a Liberal Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency is a stub.
Crawford as caricatured by Melchiorre Delfico in Vanity Fair , January 1873
