Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe Federal Security Agency, Federal Reserve System was an English landowner and peer.
Background
The son of John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe, an army general, and Henrietta Maria Anna Walker-Hungerford, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. On his father"s death in 1835, he became the third Baron Crewe and inherited the Jacobean mansion of Crewe Hall in Cheshire, together with a large estate in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
Education
Christ Church; Eton College.
Career
He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1840 and of the Royal Society in 1841. Lord Crewe commissioned Edward Blore to make alterations to Crewe Hall (1837-1842). These included major changes to the plan of the building, redecoration of the interior in a Jacobethan style more sympathetic to the original Jacobean house, and modernisations including the installation of a warm-air heating system.
Blore also added a centrepiece and clocktower to the stables quadrangle and built a gate lodge.
The total cost of the works was £30,000. A fire gutted the main hall in January 1866.
Extensive restoration work was carried out for Lord Crewe by East. M. Barry, son of Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Palace of Westminster (1866-1870). Barry added a tower to the west wing.
Required for water storage, the tower was intended to unite the east and west wings of the hall.
He also reorganised the plan of the ground floor. Lord Crewe died of influenza at Crewe Hall in 1894.