The Revd William Crisp was a missionary priest of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Bloemfontein, South Africa, who served there from the mid-1860s.
[2] Having been ordained deacon in 1862, William Crisp went out to South Africa to work in the newly established Diocese of Bloemfontein.
In 1871 Crisp had written to the newly arrived Bishop Webb that he and Mitchell were able to converse with the people and preach in the local Serolong dialect of Setswana.
[3] By 1883 Crisp had been appointed by Webb as a canon of the cathedral in Bloemfontein, and treasurer of the Diocese; and afterwards he served as archdeacon.
Other works included his Notes towards a Secoana grammar (1880), an enlarged second edition of which was published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1886.