Sir Cresswell Cresswell, PC, born Cresswell Easterby, was an English lawyer, judge and Tory politician. As a judge in the newly created divorce court, Cresswell did much to start the emergence of modern family law by setting divorce on a secular footing, removed from the traditional domain of canon law.
- Occupation
- judge, politician, lawyer
- Position held
- member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- August 20, 1794
