Baron Crawshaw, of Crawshaw in the County of Lancaster, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 and is still extant. The seat of the Brooks family is Whatton House near Loughborough in Leicestershire. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...
Richard Crawshaw, BaronCrawshaw of Aintree OBE, known as Dick Crawshaw (September 25, 1917—July 16, 1986) was elected as a British Labour Party Member of Parliament in 1964 but left, or "defected" (as the media reported), to join the SDP in 1981.
Crawshaw was a strong supporter of the Territorial Army and on one occasion voted against the annual Defence Estimates because they failed to make a large enough provision for it.
He was later raised to the peerage as BaronCrawshaw of Aintree, of Salford in the County of Greater Manchester.
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