Arthur Crawford

Arthur Crawford (c.1749-1833) of Bloomfield, second son of James Crawford and Mabel, nee Johnston.

https://www.bloomfieldbelfast.co.uk/crawford-family-1798-1831.php: 'Arthur Crawford and his Marriage'.
Second sons inevitably "went soldiering" in those days. Arthur Crawford signed up, in 1768, as a cadet in the army of the Honourable East India Company. He was commissioned as a Cornet, Ensign or Second Lieutenant on 28 September 1770; then as Captain on 22 December 1782. He resigned in January 1789. (Source: Dodwell, Edward and Miles, James Samuel. Alphabetical list of the officers of the Madras army; with the dates of their respective promotion, retirement, resignation, or death, whether in India or in Europe; from the year 1760, to the year 1834 inclusive, corrected to September 30, 1837, Longman, London, 1838.)

After his resignation from the army, and just over one year after the death of his younger brother James, Arthur returned to the family home at Crawford’s Burn; the following year, 1794, Arthur Crawford married Theodora Waddell.