The Times June 17th 1942
Lord Crofton died at Mote Park, Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, on Monday at the age of 75, as briefly announced in our later editions yesterday.
Arthur Edward Lowther Crofton, fourth Baron, seventh Baronet, and a representative Peer for Ireland, was the son of the late Hon C St. G Crofton, brother of the third Baron. He was educated at Wellington. In 1886, he entered the Northumberland Fusiliers an promoted Captain in 1895 and became adjutant of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion in 1896. He succeeded to the title in 1912. During the last war he served as Lieutenant-Colonel, and was mentioned in dispatches. Lord Crofton was a D.L. for Roscommon. In 1893 he married Jessie Castle, daughter of Mr J Hewitson and widow of Mr Neville Paddon. The heir to the Barony is his grandson Edward Blaise Crofton, a naval cadet, aged 16 – the son of Lord Crofton’s eldest son, the Hon. Edward Charles Crofton who died in 1936.
I am the granddaughter of Amy Paddon.