The Crauford Baronetcy, of Kilbirney in south-west Scotland ("North Britain" in the terminology of the time), is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 8 June 1781 for Alexander Crauford, the member of an ancient Scottish family. Sir Charles Crauford

Charles Craufurd

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gregan Craufurd GCB was a Scottish soldier.Craufurd was the second son of Sir Alexander Crauford, 1st Baronet , and the elder brother of Robert Craufurd. He entered the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1778. Made captain in the Queen's Bays in 1785, he became the equerry and...

, second son of the first Baronet, was a General in the British Army

British Army

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 while his younger brother Robert Crauford

Robert Craufurd

Major-General Robert Craufurd was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament . After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands, he was given command of the Light Division in the Napoleonic Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington...

 was a Major-General in the Army. Both also represented East Retford

East Retford (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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Crauford Baronets, of Kilbirney (1781)

• Sir Alexander Crauford, 1st Baronet (c. 1729-1797)
• Sir James Gregan-Crauford, 2nd Baronet (1761-1839)
• Sir George William Crauford, 3rd Baronet (1797-1881)
• Sir Charles William Frederick Crauford, 4th Baronet (1847-1939)
• Sir George Standish Gage Crauford, 5th Baronet (1872-1957)
• Sir Quentin Charles Alexander Crauford, 6th Baronet (1875-1957)
• Sir Alexander John Fortescue Crauford, 7th Baronet (1876-1966)
• Sir James Gregan Crauford, 8th Baronet (1886-1970)
• Sir Robert James Crauford, 9th Baronet (b. 1937)