Robert Sharman-Crawford

Who was Robert Sharman-Crawford?

Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford PC was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Sharman-Crawford studied at Trinity College, Dublin before becoming an officer in the British Army and managing the family estates. He was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party at the Belfast East by-election, 1914, although the seat was abolished in 1918. He returned to Parliament at the Mid Down by-election, 1921 but, the following year, this seat was also abolished. In 1921, he was also elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland, and served until his death in 1934.