Person:William Crossman (7)

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Major-Gen Sir William Crossman, KCMG
b.30 Jun 1830 Isleworth, Middlesex, England
d.19 Apr 1901 London
Parents and Siblings
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m. 3 Oct 1829
  1. Major-Gen Sir William Crossman, KCMG1830 - 1901
  2. Mary Douglas Crossman1831 - Aft 1883
  3. James Hiscutt Crossman1833 - 1899
  4. Margaret Crossman1834 - Aft 1891
  5. Capt Edmund Douglas Crossman1835 - 1867
  6. Lt Robert Crossman1837 - 1862
  7. Sarah Emma Crossman1839 - 1845
  8. Maria Crossman1841 - 1845
  9. Alexander Crossman1842 - 1916
  10. Eliza Crossman1845 - 1904
  11. Joseph Gilchrist Crossman1847 - 1925
  12. Emma Rachel Crossman1848 - Aft 1904
  13. John Wycliffe Crossman1850 - 1929
  14. Sarah Maria Crossman1852 - 1904
Spouse and Children
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m. 1855
  1. Mary Catherine Crossman1856 - 1941
  2. Josephine Beatrice Crossman1858 - 1874
  3. Lillian Crossman1861 - 1861
  4. Robert Crossman1862 -
  5. Lawrence Morley Crossman1864 - 1908
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Major-Gen Sir William Crossman, KCMG1830 - 1901
  • W.  Annie Richards
m. 29 Jun 1899
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Facts and Events
Name Major-Gen Sir William Crossman, KCMG
Gender Male
Birth[1] 30 Jun 1830 Isleworth, Middlesex, England
Marriage 1855 to Catherine Josephine Morley
Marriage 29 Jun 1899 London, Englandto Annie Richards
Death[1] 19 Apr 1901 London

Major-Gen, Sir William Crossman, K.C.M.G. (1884) (C.M.G. 1877) AICE FRSA FRGS MP of Cheswick House and Holy Island, Lord of the Manor of Holy Island, J.P., C.A., Northumberland, MP for Portsmouth 1885-92.

Joined the Royal Engineers 19 Dec 1848. Became Lieutenant 17 Feb 1854. See:http://history.albany.wa.gov.au/index.php?option=com_ahc&task=details&id=44587

Member of Organizing Committee Great Exhibition 1851.

Visiting Maj. Western Australia 1851 (as superintendent of public works construction by convicts). Arrived on the Marion 3 Jan 1851.

Sec. Royal Commission on Canadian Defs. 1861, served in Royal Navy expedition to Nanking and Yung Chow 1869 (despatches), Lt Col 1873, Assistant Director of Fortifications 1874, 1st Inspector of Submarine Defs. 1876-81, CRE and Staff Colonel 1882, Major-Gen 1886.

Educated Berwick Grammar School and RMA Woolwich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crossman

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Crossman,_William_(DNB12)

High Sheriff of Northumberland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Northumberland:

1894: Maj Gen Sir William Crossman KCMG of Cheswick, Beal

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crossman: A Family History of the Ancestors and Family of Alexander Crossman (1895-1984).
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