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Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, KG, PC, FSA (12 January 1858 – 20 June 1945), known as The Honourable Robert Milnes from 1863 to 1885, The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British Liberal politician, statesman and writer.
Marquess of Crewe was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal statesman Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe. He had already been created Earl of Crewe, of Crewe, Cheshire, in 1895, and was made Earl of Madeley, in Staffordshire, at the same time as he was granted the marquessate.
- Education
- Coming of Age and Marriage
- First Steps on The Political Ladder
- Title and Tragedy
- Ireland
- Inheritance
- Second Marriage
- A New Century
- The Indian Durbar
- The First World War
Robert Milnes was educated at Winston House School, near Winchester, and then Harrow. There, in 1874, he suffered tragedy in the death of his beloved mother. This blow was followed by a four month illness. When he returned to Harrow, his literary skills earned him the Shakespeare Gold Medal. In the summer of 1875, he travelled to the United States ...
In January, 1879, Robert Milnes came of age, with a ball at the restored Fyston Hall. By now, he was considering a political career, but with no firm prospect of a parliamentary seat. In spite of his youth, he surprised everyone by announcing his engagement to Sybil Marcia, daughter of Sir Frederick Graham of Netherby. His father, Lord Houghton was...
It was now vital to look to the future. The Milnes were Liberal in politics, and Lord Houghton sounded out his friend Gladstone about the possibility of his son becoming Private Secretary to a Cabinet Minister, but there was no immediate prospect on the horizon. Robert Milnes and his young wife were living with her grandmother, the Duchess of Somer...
In August, 1885, Richard Milne died suddenly at Vichy, and his death changed Robert Milnes’ life. As 2ndBaron Houghton, he became a young Liberal peer and a landowner. He openly supported Gladstone at a time when many Whig peers were against his attitude to the Irish Home Rule question. In 1886, Houghton became Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, as...
By the end of 1891, he was back in the House of Lords, earning the reputation of a hard-working, promising Liberal peer. In 1892, Gladstone won the general election, and offered Houghton the position of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland – or Viceroy of Ireland – as it was then known. This was a challenging position: the Viceroy represented the sovereign, ...
In 1895 the Liberals were defeated and Gladstone resigned, and Houghton’s spell as Viceroy of Ireland ended. His friend Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister. The previous year, Hungerford Crewe had died, and Houghton became 4thBaron, inheriting estates of around 50,000 acres. The name ‘Crewe,’ was added to his surname, and in 1895, he was created Ea...
At a dinner party with the Asquiths, he met Lady Margaret Etienne Hannah Primrose, whom he had known as a child, as she was Rosebery’s daughter. Lady Margaret describes the evening: ‘We talked at dinner and the rest of the evening, and Margot Asquith said afterwards that she immediately prophesied our marriage. We became engaged at the coming-out b...
In the early years of the twentieth century Lord Crewe’s friendship with Asquith secured him involvement and positions in most government committees. He became greatly valued for his calm, balanced judgement and skills in organisation and administration, and his moderate views made him a successful mediator. In 1908, he was appointed Secretary of S...
Crewe was Secretary of State for India from 1911-1915, and orchestrated the famous Delhi Durbar of 1911. This was the first visit of a reigning King Emperor to India. Indeed, never had a king of England journeyed so far from his accustomed sphere, and only one, seven hundred years before had ever set foot in Asia. All aspects of the Durbar were a t...
1911 was an eventful year for family; in February, Lady Crewe gave birth to a son, their first child. Immediately after the birth, a major fire broke out at Crewe House, which needed fourteen fire engines to subdue. Lady Crewe and the baby were taken to her father, Lord Rosebery’s house in Berkeley Square. Lord Crewe praised his wife’s ‘great pluck...
Papers of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, comprising correspondence with Imperial College administration department, 1908-1922, as Chairman of the Governing Body.
Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe- (1858–1945), marquess of Crewe , lord lieutenant of Ireland, was born 12 January 1858 in London, youngest child and only surviving son of Richard Monckton-Milnes (1809–85), 1st Baron Houghton, a Yorkshire landowner, MP, and man of letters, and his wife Annabella Hungerford (née Crewe; d. 1874), eldest ...
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes was born 12 January 1858, the only son of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton, and Annabella Hungerford, daughter of the 2nd Lord Crewe. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge.
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945), Leader of the Liberal Party and writer. Sitter in 22 portraits In 1884 Crew-Milnes was adopted as a Liberal candidate for Barnsley, but he never contested the seat as the death of his father in 1885 meant he entered the House of Lords as Baron Houghton.
