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Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, was born on January 12, 1858, in London, England.

He was a British Liberal politician and writer. He was educated at Harrow School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge (1880). In 1883, he became Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1886, he was made a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria. After the death of his first wife in 1887, he travelled to Egypt, where he wrote the "Stray Verses" (1890) as a mournful lament at his great loss. From 1892 to 1895, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1895, he was created Earl of Crewe in the County Palatine of Chester. He served as Secretary of State for the Colonies (1908-1910), Secretary of State for India (1911-1915), President of the Board of Education (1916), Lord Privy Seal (1908-1915), Lord President of the Council (1905-1908, 1915-1916), and Leader of the House of Lords (1908-1916). In 1911, he was created Earl of Madeley and Marquess of Crewe. As an Ambassador to France (1922-1928), he launched a fund to create a British Institute in Paris (now the University of London Institute in Paris). He briefly acted as Secretary of State for War in 1931. From 1936 and throughout the Second World War, Crewe was a leader of the Independent Liberals in the House of Lords. He was the author of his father-in-law's biography "Lord Rosebery" (2 vols., 1931).

In 1880, he married Sibyl Marcia Graham (1857–1887), and in 1899, he remarried Lady Margaret Etrenne Hannah Primrose (1881-1967). He died on June 20, 1945, in London, England.

Louis Auguste Crié was born on August 1, 1850, in Conlie, Sarthe, France.

He was a French botanist, paleontologist, naturalist, and author. He was educated at the Lycée du Mans in 1868. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine (1877) and Doctor of Science (1878). He became a professor at the Faculté des sciences de Rennes where he was in charge of studies of plant fossils for 31 years. He was interested in the flora of the nineteenth century and botanical geography as well as plant anatomy and physiology. He studied the plant fossils in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Polynesia, the Philippines, some Portuguese colonies in Africa, and in other French colonies. He also studied the plant paleontology of Western France. He is the author of numerous publications in all fields of his studies. He was a member of the National Academy of Medicine (France). In 1901, he received the award Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur‎ (Knight of the Legion of Honour).

He died on August 31, 1912, in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.

George Washington Crile, surgeon; b. Chili, Ohio, Nov. 11, 1864; M.D., Wooster Univ. (later Western Reserve Univ.), 1887; one of founders of Cleveland Clinic Foundation; d. Jan. 7, 1943

Samuel Crisp was baptized on November 14, 1707, in England. His father, Samuel Crisp, a London merchant, was a grandson of the theologian Tobias Crisp; his mother was Florence, daughter of Charles Williams.

He was an English dramatist. Crisp was educated at Eton College. By the age of thirteen, he had lost both his parents and became a residuary legatee. He led the life of a dilettante and is not known to have followed a profession. He lived in Italy for a few years, studying art and music, returning in 1740. At the request of the Countess of Coventry, he wrote the play Virginia, a tragedy based on the story of Appius and Verginia. In February 1754, the play was produced at Drury Lane, where it ran for eleven nights. When a few weeks later Virginia appeared in print, the critics, particularly in the Monthly Review, condemned the plot, characters, and diction. Crisp was bitterly disappointed, sold his home in Hampton, and moved to Chessington Hall in Surrey, which he shared with his friend Christopher Hamilton. After Hamilton died in 1759, he remained there as a boarder of Hamilton's unmarried sister Sarah. Crisp was frequently visited by his sister, Mrs. Sophia Gast of Burford, Oxfordshire, by his old friend and protégé the musician and historian Charles Burney, and by Burney's family. Crisp came to know his daughter, Fanny. It was to “Daddy” Crisp that Fanny addressed her first journal letters, lively accounts of the musical evenings at the Burneys’ London house where the elite among European performers entertained informally for gatherings. She probably wrote much of her second novel, 'Cecilia' at Crisp's home, and they enjoyed a long correspondence, Crisp acting as her mentor.

He died unmarried on April 24, 1783, in Chessington, Surrey, England.