Champion de Crespigny baronets
The Champion de Crespigny Baronetcy, of Champion Lodge, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 31 October 1805 for Claude Champion de Crespigny. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Southampton. The fourth Baronet was a well-known military adventurer and sportsman. He was eccentric enough to bribe hangman James Berry into accepting him as assistant executioner on the occasion of a triple hanging in Carlisle on 8 February 1886.[1] The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1952.
Claude Champion de Crespigny, son of the fourth Baronet, was a soldier and polo player. The Champion de Crespigny family originated from Normandy, France. Thomas Champion de Crespigny (d. 1712) settled in England and served in the British Army.
Crespigny House in Aldeburgh is a mansion built for Sir Claude de Crespigny (first Baronet) in 1775. His brother Philip Champion de Crespigny (1738-1803) was MP for Aldeburgh 1780-1790.
Champion de Crespigny baronets, of Champion Lodge (1805)
- Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 1st Baronet (1734–1818)
- Sir William Champion de Crespigny, 2nd Baronet (1765–1829)
- Augustus James Champion de Crespigny (died 1825)
- Sir Claude William Champion de Crespigny, 3rd Baronet (1818–1868)
- Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 4th Baronet (1847–1935)
- Sir Claude Raul Champion de Crespigny, 5th Baronet (1878–1941)
- Sir Henry Champion de Crespigny, 6th Baronet (1882–1946)
- Sir Frederick Philip Champion de Crespigny, 7th Baronet (1884–1947)
- Sir Vivian Tyrell Champion de Crespigny, 8th Baronet (1907–1952)
References
- ↑ Stewart P. Evans, Executioner. The Chronicles of James Berry, Victorian Hangman, 2004, p. 93
