Crewe (disambiguation)
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- CreweCreweCrewe is a railway town within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683...
, a town in Cheshire, England- Crewe railway stationCrewe railway stationCrewe railway station was completed in 1837 and is one of the most historic railway stations in the world. Built in fields near to Crewe Hall, it originally served the village of Crewe with a population of just 70 residents...
, serving the town of Crewe - Crewe WorksCrewe WorksCrewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway. It is located in the town of Crewe, in the county of Cheshire....
, a railway engineering facility in the town - Crewe Heritage Centre, a railway museum
- Crewe HallCrewe HallCrewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire, it is listed at grade I...
, a Jacobean mansion east of the town - Crewe (UK Parliament constituency)Crewe (UK Parliament constituency)Crewe was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
, defunct House of Commons constituency
- Crewe railway station
- Crewe, VirginiaCrewe, VirginiaCrewe is a town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,378 at the 2000 census. It was founded in 1888 as a central location to house steam locomotive repair shops for the Norfolk and Western Railroad which has a rail yard there for east-west trains carrying Appalachian...
, USA, a town - Crewe (crater)Crewe (crater)Crewe is a crater approximately 3 km in diameter on the planet Mars, located at 25° South, 10° West.The crater was named after the town of Crewe, Cheshire, England.-External links:*...
, a crater on Mars named after the English town
People:
- Albert Crewe (born 1927), physicist and inventor of the scanning transmission electron microscope
- Bertie CreweBertie CreweBertie Crewe was one of the leading English theatre architects in the boom of 1885 to 1915-Biography:Born in Essex and partly trained by Frank Matcham, Crewe and his contemporaries W.G.R...
(died 1937), British theatre designer - Bob CreweBob CreweBob Crewe is an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, record producer and fine artist. He is known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for The Four Seasons...
, American songwriter, singer, manager, and record producer - Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8th BaronetSir George Harpur Crewe, 8th BaronetSir George Harpur Crewe, 8th Baronet was an English Tory politician who represented the constituency of South Derbyshire.-Biography:...
(1795-1844), English Tory politician - Henry Harpur CreweHenry Harpur CreweHenry Harpur Crewe was an English clergyman and naturalist. He was rector of Breadsall and then Drayton Beauchamp from 1860 until his death.-Biography:...
(1828–1883), English clergyman and naturalist - Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron CreweHungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron CreweHungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe FSA, FRS was an English landowner and peer.The son of John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe, an army general, and Henrietta Maria Anna Walker-Hungerford, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford...
(1812–1894) - John Crewe (disambiguation), various persons of that name, including:
- John Crewe, 1st Baron CreweJohn Crewe, 1st Baron CreweJohn Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe , of Crewe Hall in Cheshire, was a British politician. He is chiefly remembered for his sponsorship of Crewe's Act of 1782, which barred customs officers and post office officials from voting....
(1742–1829) - John Crewe, 2nd Baron CreweJohn Crewe, 2nd Baron CreweJohn Crewe was an English soldier and peer.He was the son of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe, a politician who was created the first Baron Crewe in 1806, and Frances Anne Crewe, the daughter of Fulke Greville, who was a political hostess known for her great beauty...
(1772–1835)
- John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe
- Ranulph CreweRanulph CreweSir Ranulph Crewe was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.-Early life and career:...
(1558-1646), English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench - Thomas CreweThomas CreweSir Thomas Crewe , of Stene in Northamptonshire, was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer, and served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1623 to 1625....
(1565-1634), English Member of Parliament and lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons
Other:
- Marquess of CreweMarquess of CreweMarquess of Crewe was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal statesman Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe. He had already been created Earl of Crewe, of Crewe in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1895 and was made Earl of Madeley, in the County of...
, an extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom - Baron CreweBaron CreweBaron Crewe, of Crewe in the County of Chester, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 February 1806 for the politician and landowner John Crewe, of Crewe Hall, Cheshire. This branch of the Crewe family descended from Sir Ranulph Crewe , Speaker of the House of...
, another extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom - Crewe United F.C.Crewe United F.C.Crewe United is an intermediate-level football club playing in the Intermediate A division of the Mid-Ulster Football League in Northern Ireland. The club hails from Glenavy in County Antrim. The club was formed as Sparta in 1961 and played in the West Belfast League before joining the Northern...
, an intermediate-level football club in Northern Ireland - Sara Crewe, the main character in the children's novel A Little PrincessA Little PrincessA Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.According to Burnett, she...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett