Thomas Crosland

Thomas Pearson Crosland (29 December 1815 – 8 March 1868) was a British Liberal Party politician and woollen manufacturer.

Crosland married three times, first to Ann Kilner, daughter of William Kilner in 1841. After she died in 1845, he remarried to Matilda Roche Cousins in 1849 who bore him a son, George William Crosland (c1852–1902); and then, after her death in 1853, Julia Cousins, with whom he had another eight children: Ada Pearson Crosland (1855–1919) Thomas Pearson Crosland (1856–1932) Julia Pearson Crosland (1857– ) John Pearson Crosland (1860–1946) Stanley Pearson Crosland (1861–1929) Arthur Pearson Crosland (1862– ) Marion Pearson Crosland (1865–1938) Alfred Pearson Crosland (1866–1867)

Political career He was elected MP, as a staunch Whig Liberal and supporter of free trade,

Crosland's brother, Joseph Crosland, became the seat's first Conservative MP in 1893.