Hew Craufurd 1690-1756
From Book Owners Online
Hew CRAUFURD of Jordanhill 1690-1756
Biographical Note
Hew Craufurd (or Hugh Crawford) was the eldest son of James Crawford of Jordanhill, Renfrewshire. Admitted as Writer to the Signet 1716.
Books
Used engraved bookplates:
Franks 7261 Craufurd, Mr. Hew, Writer to the Signet. (A. Burden)
Franks 7293 Crawfurd, Mr. Hew, Clerk of the Signet
Sources
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet, with a list of the members of the society from 1594 to 1890, 1936, p. 46.
- John Finlay ‘The Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Early Modern Scotland’, Edinburgh Law Review, 11 (1). pp. 31–61. p. 48.