Philip Champion de Crespigny (1 April 1738 – 1 January 1803) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1790.
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Early life
Champion de Crespigny was born in London on 1 April 1738. He was of Huguenot descent, the son of Philip Champion de Crespigny (1704–1765), proctor of the Admiralty court, and his wife Anne Fonnereau, daughter of Claude Fonnereau of Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk. His elder brother Claude was made a baronet in 1805.
Crespigny was likely educated at Eton College in 1748, and was an advocate of Doctors' Commons in 1759.
Career
In 1768, he became King's Proctor and held the post until 1784.
In 1774, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Sudbury on the Fonnereau interest after a contest, but lost his seat on petition. In 1780, he was returned unopposed at Aldeburgh, also on the Fonnereau interest, as well as at Sudbury after a contest. He held both seats until 1781, when he lost Sudbury on petition, and continued to sit for Aldeburgh. The English Chronicle wrote in 1781 that “his hauteur is so distinguished, that he is generally characterised ... by the profane, though very applicable appellation, of God Almighty”. He was returned unopposed at Aldeburgh in 1784, but did not stand in the 1790 election. He was a member of the Whig club.