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Montague Hughes Cookson (1832–1888)
Montague Hughes Crackanthorpe (1888–1913)

1832–1913

Barrister. BA, Oxford (St John’s College), 1854. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1859; QC, 1875. Assumed the name Crackanthorpe by royal licence in 1888. Advocated limiting family size.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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