Edward Henry John Craufurd (9 December 1816 – 29 August 1887) was a Scottish Radical politician.

He was the eldest son of John Craufurd of Auchenames and Kerse in the counties of Renfrewshire and Ayr, Treasurer General of the Ionian Islands, and Sophia Marianne Churchill, daughter of Major General Churchill and great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole.

Edward Craufurd

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship in 1840 and graduated as 12th senior optime. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1845 and practised on the Home Circuit and attended the Surrey Sessions. He was editor of The Legal Examiner

Edward Craufurd

In 1860 he married Frances, daughter of the Rev William Molesworth, Rector of St Breock, Cornwall, and sister of the Rev Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th Baronet of Pencarrow and niece of James Wentworth Buller, MP for North Devon.

Edward Craufurd

He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Buteshire and a JP for Ayrshire. he was a member of the English Law Amendment Society and the Scottish Society for promoting the Amendment of the Law. He promoted the Scotch Affirmation Act, the Jurors Affirmation Act and the Judgments Extension Act 1868.

He was Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs from 1852 until 1874.

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Debrett's House of Commons, 1870

Clan Crawford Association

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1816 births

1887 deaths

Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies

UK MPs 1852–1857

UK MPs 1857–1859

UK MPs 1859–1865

UK MPs 1865–1868

UK MPs 1868–1874

Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

Deputy Lieutenants of Buteshire

Members of the Inner Temple