John Crouch (1796–1858)

Society administrator and embezzler. Born in Puttenham, Surrey, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Crouch. Curator of the library of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Yeoman bedell of Cambridge University. Cricketer. Embezzled money from the Cambridge Philosophical Society; declared bankrupt, 1851.

Sources

Cambridge Independent Press, 14 August 1858, p. 8

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/86/15/8/15), 1851 (HO107/176/793/22)

Gibson 2019 pp. 141–75

London Gazette, 11 February 1851, p. 357

Surrey Church of England Parish Registers PUT/1/2 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 July 2022)

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