Background
He was born at Wilton Crescent, London, on 18 March 1834. He was the son of John Crawfurd, diplomat, and Horatia Annual
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Oswald Crawfurd
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Education
He was educated at Eton, he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1854, but left the university without a degree.
Career
He became a clerk in the Foreign Office and was subsequently promoted to be Her Majesty"s consul at Oporto, serving there from 1867 to 1891. After his retirement from consular service in 1891, Crawfurd become editor and director of Black and White, managing director of Chapman & Hall, and editor of Chapman"s Magazine of Fiction from 1895 to 1898. He wrote 13 novels (of minor reputation) and contributed articles to the Fortnightly Review, Cornhill Magazine, Nineteenth Century, and the New Review.
In 1873 Crawfurd founded the New Quarterly Magazine, which he sold to Francis Hueffer in 1877.
Oswald Crawfurd was the son of John Crawfurd, who played an important role in the founding of Singapore. Oswald"s first marriage was to Margaret "Meta" Ford, the daughter of the writer Richard Ford.
