:William Crawley (priest)

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William Crawley (20 April 1803 in Rotherfield – 12 January 1896 in Bryngwyn) was a long serving 19th-century Welsh[https://archives.library.wales/index.php/letter-from-archdeacon-william-crawley-bryngwyn-to-w-illiam-ddams-williams National Library of Wales] Anglican priest,[https://www.villagealivetrust.org.uk/what-to-see/churches/st-mary Villages Alive Trust] most notably Archdeacon of Monmouth"A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Monmouth, at the Vernal Visitation, in April, 1847" Church of England. Archdeaconry of Monmouth. Archdeacon Crawley: Monmouth Farror, T, 1849 for over forty years.'ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE' The Morning Post (London, England) Tuesday, 21 January 1896 Issue 38570 p3

Crawley was educated at Shrewsbury and Magdalene College, Cambridge.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press [https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft/page/172/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii. Chalmers – Fytche, (1944) p172 ] He was a Fellow of Magdalen from 1824 to 1834. Crawley was ordained deacon in 1825 and priest in 1826. He held livings at Llanvihangel (1831–1858)Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p284: London; Horace Cox; 1885 and Bryngwyn (1834–1896).[https://family-tree.cobboldfht.com/people/view/2906 Cobbold Family History Trust] He was Archdeacon of Monmouth from 1844 to 1885.[https://forebears.io/wales/monmouthshire/bryngwyn forebears/monmouthshire/bryngwyn]

His eldest son Richard{{Dictionary of Welsh Biography|id=s-CRAW-RIC-1840|title=CRAWLEY, RICHARD (1840 - 1893), scholar}} was a noted classical scholar,{{DNB|prescript=|wstitle=Crawley, Richard}} while his youngest son William was a cricketer and clergyman.