Frederick H. Crawford
Colonel Frederick Hugh Crawford CBE, JP was an officer in the British Army. A staunch Ulster loyalist, Crawford is most notable for organising the Larne gunrunning which secured guns and ammunition for the Ulster Volunteers in 1914, and made him a hero for Northern Irelands unionists.
Crawford was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, onAugust 1861 into a solid Methodist family of UlsterScots roots. Whilst Crawford was a determined Ulster loyalist, his greatgrandfather was Alexander Crawford, a United Irishman arrested in March 1797 for high treason, and sent to Kilmainham gaol, sharing a cell with prominent United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken.
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