Crampton married Louisa Martha Hall, who was a singer and a friend of Jenny Lind, on 25 February 1841. [2 ] They had 8 children, six boys and two girls.
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Crampton was an assistant to Marc Brunel and then Sir Daniel Gooch, under whom he prepared the drawings for the ‘Firefly’ class of locomotives for the Great Western Railway.