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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3138464.2.2
Summary
White card bookmark for 'NORTHERN FIRE LIFE' and a plain white piece of paper folded in three. They are kept in the book 'English comic dramatists . edited by Oswald Crawfurd.' by Oswald John Frederick Crawfurd (1834-1909) (record 3138464). The plain white piece of paper folded as if a bookmark. Oswald John Frederick Crawfurd (1834–1909) was an English journalist, man of letters, and diplomat who served over 24 years as British consul in Oporto, Portugal. He was born at Wilton Crescent, London, on 18 March 1834. He was the son of John Crawfurd, diplomat, and Horatia Ann. He was educated at Eton, he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1854, but left the university without a degree. He became a clerk in the Foreign Office and was subsequently promoted to be H.M.'s consul at Oporto, serving there from 1867 to 1891. After his retirement from consular service in 1891, Crawfurd become editor and director of Black and White, managing director of Chapman & Hall, and editor of Chapman's Magazine of Fiction from 1895 to 1898. He wrote 13 novels (of minor reputation) and contributed articles to the Fortnightly Review, Cornhill Magazine, Nineteenth Century, and the New Review. In 1873 Crawfurd founded the New Quarterly Magazine, which he sold to Francis Hueffer in 1877.