Background
CRAWFORD, Donald was born in 1837. Son of Alexander Crawford of Aros, Argyllshire, and Sibella, daughter of Donald Maclean of Kinlochscridan, Writer to the Signet.
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Donald CRAWFORD
Donald CRAWFORD, British Member of Parliament.
Education
Edinburgh Academy; University of Glasgow. Balliol College Oxford. Heidelberg University.
Career
Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford, 1861-1881. Advocate at Scottish Bar, 1862. Legal Secretary to Lord Advocate, 1880-1885.
Parliamentary Boundary Commissioner, 1885. Member of Parliament (Liberal) Lanarkshire North-east Division, 1885-1895. Member of Scottish University Commission, 1889-1897.
Sheriff, 1895; Deputy Chairman of Fishery Board for Scotland, 1897. Honourable Doctor of Laws Aberdeen, 1909. King’s Counsel; Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and Banff; D.L. counties of Aberdeen and Banff.
Politics
Liberal.
Membership
Clubs: Brooks’s, Oxford and Cambridge; New, and Scottish Liberal, Edinburgh.
Connections
- Father:
- Alexander Crawford
- Mother:
- Sibella
