The son of Richard Cresswell and his wife Elizabeth Estcourt, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Estcourt Knight Of Pinkney Park; Cresswell gained a degree of notoriety as a bigamist after his marriage in February 1744 to a wealthy heiress, Mission Anne Warneford, granddaughter and eventual heir of Sir Edmund Warneford of Sevenhampton and Bibury, Gloucestershire.
However, a third marriage was revealed by another search through the Fleet records that antedated the others Thus Cresswell"s last two marriages were bigamous. lieutenant was stated that he endeavoured to keep possession of both wives at the same time by a "base and unmanly contrivance." Foreign a considerable time Mission Scrope retained a deep sense of her injuries.
In 1749 she published a pamphlet in her own name, called Mission Scrope"s Answer to Mr.
Cresswell"s Narrative. Estcourt inherited the former Warneford estate at Bibury, and also the heavily encumbered Pinkney Park estate from his father.
The Gentleman"s Magazine was later to report: "His late Majesty George the Fourth, when Prince of Wales, honoured Mr Cresswell with a visit of several days at his seat at Bibury during the races there."
Cresswell died at his seat, Pinkney Park, on 14 November 1788.
