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Robert Hawgood Crew
Robert Hawgood Crew (1762-1839) was an English civil servant who served as Secretary to the Board of Ordnance during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. His department was a major contributor to the naval and military successes of the United Kingdom and its allies.
==Early life==
Baptised on 12 September 1762 in the church of St Dunstan-in-the-West in the City of London, he was the son of Robert Crew and his wife Elizabeth Oare.
By 1777 he had a position with the Ordnance Department.〔Commissioners Appointed to Examine, Take, and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom, XIIIth Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, Appendix No 6, Examination of R H Crew Esq Secretary to the Board of Ordnance taken upon Oath the 12th March 1810. https://books.google.co.uk/ retrieved 29 October 2015〕 This was the government department responsible for the military establishment of the United Kingdom and its overseas possessions, excluding India. The Ordnance provided buildings, fortifications, weapons and supplies for the two fighting arms, the British Army and the Royal Navy, as well as controlling the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. It was the second largest department after HM Treasury and its head, the Master-General of the Ordnance, had a seat in the Cabinet.
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