Social Victorians/People/Crichton

Also Known As

• Family name: Crichton or Chrichton
• Possibly misspelled as Creighton?
• Viscount Crichton
  • Lt.-Col. Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton (3 October 1885 – 31 October 1914)

Timeline

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord Crichton and Mr. Herbert Creighton attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. (Henry, Viscount Crichton is #646 on the list of people who attended; Mr. Herbert Creighton is #647.)

1903 June 10, Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton and Lady Mary Cavendish Grosvenor married.

1903 July 14, Hubert Francis Crichton and Esther Eliza Sanderson married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Lord Crichton

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton was at the ball in

• a costume of the "Empire period."
• "an Empire dress."

He later married and was the first husband of Lady Mary Cavendish Grosvenor, who married into the Stanley family in 1918.

Mr. Herbert Creighton

Mr. Herbert Creighton was dressed as Charles I in "grey satin."

Demographics

• Nationality:

Family

• John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne of Crom Castle (30 July 1802 – 3 October 1885)
• Selina Griselda Beresford (c. 1804 – 6 September 1884)

• Lady Louisa Anne Catherine Crichton (27 May 1838 – 29 August 1866)
• John Henry Crichton, 4th Earl Erne of Crom Castle (16 October 1839 – 2 December 1914)
• Colonel Hon. Charles Frederick Crichton (November 1841 – 20 August 1918)
• Colonel Hon. Sir Henry George Louis Crichton (7 April 1844 – 10 May 1922)

• John Henry Crichton, 4th Earl Erne of Crom Castle (16 October 1839 – 2 December 1914)
• Lady Florence Mary Cole ( – 23 March 1924)
  1. Lt.-Col. Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton (30 September 1872 – 31 October 1914)
  2. Colonel Hon. Sir George Arthur Charles Crichton (6 September 1874 – 5 March 1952)
  3. Hon. Arthur Owen Crichton (15 August 1876 – 11 July 1970)
  4. Major Hon. James Archibald Crichton (8 December 1877 – 3 August 1956)
  5. Lady Evelyn Selina Louisa Crichton (21 July 1879 – 4 May 1955)
  6. Lady Mabel Florence Mary Crichton (31 December 1882 – 15 August 1944)

• Colonel Hon. Charles Frederick Crichton (November 1841 – 20 August 1918)
• Lady Madeline Olivia Susan Taylour ( – 27 January 1876)
  1. Major Hubert Francis Crichton (17 December 1874 – 1 September 1914)
  2. Amelia Madeline Louisa Crichton (20 January 1876 – 6 December 1927)

• Lady Mary Cavendish Grosvenor (12 May 1883 – 14 January 1959)
• Lt.-Col. Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton (30 September 1872 – 31 October 1914)

1. George David Hugh Crichton (12 May 1904 – 18 May 1904)
2. Lady Mary Katherine Crichton (8 July 1905 – 2 February 1990)
3. John Henry George Crichton, 5th Earl Erne of Crom Castle (22 November 1907 – 23 May 1940)

• Algernon Francis Stanley (8 January 1874 – 10 February 1962)

1. Constance Mary Stanley (24 January 1919 – )
2. F/O Anthony Hugh Stanley (20 February 1923 – March 1943)

Notes and Questions

1. Mr. Herbert Creighton appears not to exist at this time, at least not someone notable enough to appear in newspaper or magazine accounts, The Peerage or Ancestry. Possibly the Gentlewoman misspelled his name, or got it wrong in some way or altogether. One possible mistake would be the surname, so I have put him for now on this page, even though no Herbert Crichton or Chrichton shows up in the generations that would have attended the ball.
2. Other Crichtons appeared at notable social events of this time.