Background
He was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
He was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
He was a scion of the Earls of Erne. Eustace Henry Dawnay, scion of the Viscounts Downe. Crichton shared the latter years of his life with Juan Soriano, in Eastbourne and later in Barcelona, where Soriano came from.
He edited books on the works of Manuel de Falla and Ethel Smyth.
He was working on a history of French opera when he died.