Thomas Pearson Crosland (29 December 1815 – 8 March 1868) was a British Liberal Party politician and woollen manufacturer.
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Family and early life
Crosland was the son of George Crosland and Mary Anne Pearson, the latter of whom died just four months after his birth. In early life, he worked, alongside his brothers, working for the family business George Crosland & Sons.
Crosland married three times, first to Ann Kilner, daughter of William Kilner in 1841. After she died in 1845, he remarried to Matilda Roche Cousins in 1849 who bore him a son, George William Crosland (c1852–1902); and then, after her death in 1853, Julia Cousins, with whom he had another eight children:
Ada Pearson Crosland (1855–1919)
Thomas Pearson Crosland (1856–1932)
Julia Pearson Crosland (1857– )
John Pearson Crosland (1860–1946)
Stanley Pearson Crosland (1861–1929)