About Richard Crowder
Lived 1796 – 1859 (aged 62–63). Richard Crowder was a British judge and politician.
Sir Richard Budden Crowder, QC (17 May 1796 – 5 December 1859) was a British Liberal Party politician and judge.
He was elected at a by-election in 1849 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liskeard in Cornwall, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in March 1854 to take an appointment as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas. Whilst in Parliament, he was simultaneously Judge Advocate of the Fleet from 1849 to 1854.
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British politician
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Richard Crowder was born in 1796.
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Richard Crowder died on 5 December 1859.
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Richard Crowder was a judge and politician.
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