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Darwin Correspondence Project

Charles Crew

1840/1–93

Businessman. Lived in Millbrook, South Stoneham, Hampshire, 1871. Chairman and managing director of the Antwerp Waterworks Company in Belgium, living in Antwerp as well as Millbrook, 1881. Lived at Lewcombe House, East Chelborough, Dorset, 1891. A friend of William Erasmus Darwin.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/1200/19/30), 1891 (RG12/1660/22/7)

Directory of directors 1881

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 May 2021)

letter from W. E. Darwin, 23 May 1881

Bibliography

Directory of directors: The directory of directors, a list of the directors of the principal public and private companies in the United Kingdom, with the names of the concerns with whom they are associated. London: Thomas Skinner. 1880–1944.

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