Illustrated London News – Saturday 21 September 1861
COLONEL CROFTON. Colonel Hugh Dennis Crofton, whose lamentable death occurred by the hand of an assassin, soldier of the 32nd Regiment, at Fulwood Barracks, Preston, on the 14th inst., was the eldest son and heir apparent of Sir Morgan George Crofton, third Baronet, of Mohill, in the county of Leitrim, by his wife, Emily, daughter of the Right Hon. Denis Daly, and sister of James, first Lord Dunsandle. He was born the 7th of January, 1814, entered the Army in 1830, and served for twenty years with high distinction in the 20th Regiment. He was with that regiment in the Crimea, and commanded it at the battle of the Alma ; and he led a wing of the British Army at the battle of Inkcrman. At the latter engagement he was seriously wounded, and had a horse shot under him. For his brilliant conduct he received a medal and three clasps, and was also decorated with the Legion of Honour and the fifth Cross of Medjidie. He was made a Colonel in 1858, and in December, 1859, was appointed to the command of the depot batallion at Preston, where his life has terminated in so awful a manner. Colonel Crofton married, the 26th of May, 1849, Georgiana Lucy, third daughter of the Hon. P. B. de Blaquiere, and niece of General Lord De Blaquiere, by whom (who survives him) he leaves three sons, the eldest of whom, now in his twelfth year, becomes, by his father’s death, heir apparent to the family baronetcy.
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