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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON NATHANIEL See also:CREW CREW (1633–1721)  , See also:bishop of See also:Durham, was a son of See also:John See also:Crew (1598–1679), who was created See also:Baron Crew of Stene in 1661, and a See also:grandson of See also:Sir See also:Thomas Crew (1565-1634), See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons . See also:Born on the 31st of See also:January 1633, Nathaniel was educated at See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford, and was appointed See also:rector of the college in 1668 . He became See also:dean and See also:precentor of See also:Chichester in 1669, clerk of the closet to See also:Charles II. shortly afterwards, bishop of Oxford in 1671, and bishop of Durham in 1674 . He owed his rapid preferment to See also:James, then See also:duke of See also:York, whose favour he had gained by conniving at the duke's leanings to the See also:Roman See also:Church . After the See also:accession of James II . Crew received the deanery of the See also:Chapel Royal . He served in 1686 on the revived ecclesiastical See also:commission which suspended See also:Compton, bishop of See also:London, and then shared the See also:administration of the see of London with See also:Sprat, bishop of See also:Rochester . In 1687 he was a member of another ecclesiastical commission, which suspended the See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university of See also:Cambridge for refusing the degree of M.A. to a See also:monk who would not take the customary See also:oath . On the de-cline of James's See also:power Crew dissociated himself from the See also:court, and made a bid for the favour of the new See also:government by voting for the See also:motion that James had abdicated . He was exceptedfrom the See also:general See also:pardon of 169o, but afterwards was allowed to retain his see . He See also:left large estates to be devoted to charitable ends, and his benefaction to Lincoln College and to Oxford University is commemorated in the See also:annual Crewian oration . In 1697 Crew succeeded his See also:brother Thomas as 3rd Baron Crew, He died on the 18th of See also:September 1721, when the See also:barony became See also:extinct .

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