11. Savile Brinton Crossley 1857 [1113]

PARENT 10 Dame Martha Eliza Brinton 1821 [672]

SAVILE DRINTON CROSSLEY 1st Baron of Somerleyton (2nd Baronet) was born in London on the 14 June 1857 and died on the 25 February 1935, aged 78.

He married PHYLLIS DE BATHE in London on the 14 December 1887.

Phyllis, daughter of General Sir Henry Percival de Bathe 4th Baronet and Charlotte Clare, was born in London on the 24 July 1869 and died on the 22 November 1948, aged 79.

Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton, GCVO, PC (June 14, 1857 – February 25, 1935), known as Sir Savile Crossley, Bt, from 1872 to 1916, was a British Liberal Unionist politician who served as Paymaster General from 1902 to 1905. During the late 1890s, Crossley was in the Arctic, where he shot the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) currently on display in Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. It was killed off King Charles Land, east of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard archipelago.

Savile was the only son of the businessman and Liberal politician Sir Francis Crossley, 1st Baronet, of Halifax, and his wife Martha Eliza Brinton, daughter of Henry Brinton. He was elected to parliament for Lowestoft in 1885, a seat he held until 1892, and later sat for Halifax from 1900 to 1906. In 1902 Somerleyton was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Paymaster-General in the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour. He remained in this post until the government fell in December 1905, and lost his seat in the 1906 general election that followed shortly after. Somerleyton was never to re-enter the House of Commons. However, in 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Somerleyton, of Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk. Two years later he was appointed a government whip in the coalition government of David Lloyd George. The coalition fell in 1922, but Somerleyton remained as a whip also in the Conservative administrations of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. However, after the first Baldwin government fell in 1924, he was never to hold ministerial office again.

Lord Somerleyton married Phyllis de Bathe, daughter of General Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, 4th Baronet, in 1887.

In 1916 Crossley was raised to the peerage as Baron Somerleyton (of Somerleyton in Suffolk). Then in 1918 he was appointed as a government whip in the coalition government of David Lloyd George.

He died in February 1935, aged 77, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his eldest son, Francis Savile Crossley.

Children of SAVILE & PHYLLIS CROSSLEY

i SIR FRANCIS SAVILLE CROSSLEY [1445] b.1889

ii PHYLLIS PATTY CROSSLEY [1448] b 1890

iii JOHN DE BATHE CROSSLEY [1446] b 1893

iv MONICA VICTORIA CROSSLEY [1447] b 1897

v WILLIAM GEORGE F. CROSSLEY was born in London in 1903 and died in London in 1903.