Sir John Cradock-Hartopp, 4th Baronet
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Sir John William Cradock-Hartopp, 4th Baronet (1829 - 25th May 1888) was the son of Sir William Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 3rd Baronet and Jane Mary Keane.
He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1864.
In 1873 he acquired Kingswood Warren House and estate at Kingswood, Surrey which he extended and improved with the assistance of architect William Basset Smith. In 1881 he and his family were living there in some style with twelve servants.
He had become party to an 1877 lawsuit relating to Enclosure but when in 1884 his lawyers became insolvent and absconded, his involvement caused his own bankruptcy, and the house and estate were sold in 1885. The house became in 1948 the headquarters of the BBC Research Department.
He married Charlotte Francis Howard in 1855 and was succeeded by his son Charles Edward Cradock-Hartopp, 5th Baronet
