The younger son of the poet George Crabbe; he was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and having served as his father's curate was Rector of Great and Little Glenham (1832).

REFERENCES TO John Waldron Crabbe:

George Crabbe to Samuel Rogers, 11 January 1819 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)