Arthur Crosfield

Sir Arthur Henry Crosfield, 1st Baronet GBE (5 April 1865 – 22 September 1938), was a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington from 1906 to December 1910.

Sir Arthur Crosfield

Background

In 1907 he married Domini Elliadi who was also active in Liberal politics.

Political career

He was elected during the 1906 Liberal landslide gaining Warrington from the Conservative Robert Pierpont. He was re-elected in January 1910 but defeated by the Conservative Harold Smith in December 1910. He was created a baronet, of Highgate in the County of Middlesex, on 24 June 1915.[1] He was interested in the Balkans, and wrote The Settlement of the Near East, published in 1922.

Business career

From his parents, he inherited the business of Joseph Crosfield and Sons, soap and candle manufacturers. He sold the company in 1911, bought Parkfield, an elegant 18th-century house in Highgate, north London, on the proceeds and rebuilt and enlarged it over the next seven years as Witanhurst ("Parliament on the Hill"), being the largest house in London after Buckingham Palace.

He was a keen golfer and won many championships. Crosfield was also Chairman of the National Playing Fields Association, for which he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1929.[2] He served as a School Governor for Highgate School from 1929–1930.

Crosfield lost a fortune in a failed Greek mining venture in the mid-1930s, and was killed shortly thereafter when he fell out of the window of a railway sleeper car near Toulon in southern France.[3][4]

References

"No. 29242". The London Gazette. 27 July 1915. p. 7321.
"No. 33472". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 March 1929. p. 1440.
Ed Caesar, 1 June 2015. House of Secrets, The New Yorker
"Sir A. Crosfield's Fall from Train". The Manchester Guardian. 30 September 1938. p. 13. A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. Bentley Purchase) at the inquest at St. Pancras yesterday on Sir Arthur Crosfield, who fell from the Geneva-Ventimiglia express at Muy, France, last Thursday. ... When about three-quarters of an hour from Cannes the porter called out that her [Lady Crosfield's] husband had fallen out of the window. Sir Arthur was always very fond of fresh air and liked open windows.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Pierpont	Member of Parliament for Warrington 1906 – December 1910	Succeeded by Harold Smith
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Highgate) 1915–1938	Extinct

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[1] "No. 29242". The London Gazette. 27 July 1915. p. 7321.

[2] "No. 33472". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 March 1929. p. 1440.

[3] Ed Caesar, 1 June 2015. House of Secrets, The New Yorker

[4] "Sir A. Crosfield's Fall from Train". The Manchester Guardian. 30 September 1938. p. 13. A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. Bentley Purchase) at the inquest at St. Pancras yesterday on Sir Arthur Crosfield, who fell from the Geneva-Ventimiglia express at Muy, France, last Thursday. ... When about three-quarters of an hour from Cannes the porter called out that her [Lady Crosfield's] husband had fallen out of the window. Sir Arthur was always very fond of fresh air and liked open windows.