Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton

The Right Honourable The Lord Somerleyton GCVO PC
"Lowestoft". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1888.
Paymaster-General
In office 11 March 1902 – 4 December 1905
Monarch	Edward VII
Prime Minister	Arthur Balfour
Preceded by	The Duke of Marlborough
Succeeded by	Richard Causton
Personal details
Born	14 June 1857 (1857-06-14)
Died	25 February 1935 (1935-02-26) (aged 77)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Unionist
Spouse(s)	Phyllis de Bathe (1869-1948)

Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton GCVO PC (14 June 1857 – 25 February 1935), known as Sir Savile Crossley, Bt, from 1872 to 1916, was a British Liberal Unionist politician who served as Paymaster General from 1902 to 1905.

Crossley was the only son of the businessman and Liberal politician Sir Francis Crossley, 1st Baronet, and his wife Martha Eliza, daughter of Henry Brinton.

Crossley was elected to parliament for Lowestoft in 1885, as a Liberal, a seat he held until 1892, and later sat for Halifax from 1900 to 1906. He was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1896-97.

In 1902 he was appointed Paymaster-General in the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour and was admitted to the Privy Council in December of the same year. He remained as Paymaster-General this post until the government fell in December 1905, and lost his seat in the 1906 general election that followed shortly after. Crossley was never to re-enter the House of Commons.

However, in 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Somerleyton, of Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk. Two years later he was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip) in the coalition government of David Lloyd George. The coalition fell in 1922, but Somerleyton remained as a whip also in the Conservative administrations of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. However, after the first Baldwin government fell in 1924, he was never to hold ministerial office again.