{{One source|date=August 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''William Donaldson Cruddas''' (1831 – 8 February 1912) JP MP was a British business director and politician. He married the daughter of William Nesham who was the honorary secretary to the Cathedral Nurse and Loan Society.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=6 February 1900 |title=Memorial Notices |pages=12 |work=The Manchester Guardian}}</ref> From 1888 they owned and lived at Haughton Castle.
Born in Elswick, Cruddas became a director of the Elswick Works, and chairman of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company. He also became a justice of the peace. At the 1895 UK general election, he was elected for the Conservative Party in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,but he retired in 1900 after a long period of ill health and the death of his wife who had been nursing him.<ref name=":0" /> In 1903, he was appointed as High Sheriff of Northumberland.<ref name="stenton">{{cite book |last1=Stenton |first1=Michael |last2=Lees |first2=Stephen |title=Who's Who of British Members of Parliament |volume=II |date=1978 |publisher=Harvester Press |location=Hassocks |isbn=0391006134 |page=86}}</ref>
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