Thomas Pearson Crosland (29 December 1815 – 8 March 1868)[1][2] was a British Liberal Party politician and woollen manufacturer.
After she died in 1845, he remarried to Matilda Roche Cousins in 1849 who bore him a son, George William Crosland (c1852–1902);[5] and then, after her death in 1853, Julia Cousins, with whom he had another eight children: He was elected MP, as a staunch Whig Liberal and supporter of free trade,[3] for Huddersfield in 1865 but did not serve a full term before his death in 1868.
[4] Crosland was a member of the Mechanics' Institute, and a patron of the Yorkshire Penny Bank.
In 1852, he was named a Justice of the Peace and, in 1864, a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
[3] He was made a Captain of the 2nd Company in 1860, a Major in 1862, a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1864, and an honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion of West York Rifle Volunteers in 1866.