Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton, 2nd Baronet, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, was a British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States from 1852 to 1856 and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia from 1858 to 1860.
Background
The son of Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet, a Dublin doctor and scientist, one of the founders of the Pitt Street Institution in Dublin, Crampton was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a career diplomat. Both were descended from John Fiennes Twistleton Crampton (1732–1792), who was the son of the Reverend John Crampton (1706–1771), Archdeacon of Tuam, by his marriage to Charlotte Fiennes Twisleton (1710–1776), a daughter of Colonel Fiennes Twisleton, 11th Baron Saye and Sele (ca 1670–1730).
Education
Trinity College; Eton College.
Career
Crampton was appointed as Secretary of the British legation at Washington in July, 1845, after previous diplomatic service in Turin, Street St. Petersburg, Brussels, and Vienna. In January, 1852, he succeeded Sir Henry Bulwer as head of the Washington mission. He was obliged to resign in 1856, on the demand of United States. President Franklin Pierce, whose administration accused him of attempting to enlist recruits for the British Army during the Crimean War.
As some consolation, Crampton was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath) on 20 September 1856.
His later postings included serving as British Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Hanover, from 2 March 1857 until early in 1858, then returned to Street St. Petersburg as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Russian Empire from 31 March 1858 to 1860. He was finally posted as Minister to Madrid, where he served from 11 December 1860.
He resigned from his post in Spain with effect from 1 July 1869, when he retired with a pension, after more than forty years" diplomatic service. Crampton succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet on 10 June 1858.
He died on 7 December 1886 at Bushy Park, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, aged 81.