William Henry of Lota Lodge, Co Cork was the eldest son of Arthur Johnston SHARMAN-CRAWFORD.

An indenture dated 22 August 1870 reports that William Henry, having attained the age of 21 years, and living at Lakelands, was introduced to the firm of Beamish and Crawford by William Horatio CRAWFORD, (grandson of its founder William CRAWFORD who also built the house 'Lakelands' near Blackrock.

He married two days before his 27th birthday, by special licence at 11 Marrion Square East, Dublin on 8 January 1874, Elizabeth Maraquita GRAVES, the eldest daughter of Lt Col. James William GRAVES of the Royal Irish Regiment and his wife Catherine Anne WRIGHT, fourth daughter of James Wood WRIGHT of Gola, Co. Monaghan. (After William's death in 1889, she remarried on 29 Nov 1890, Warren Edward Rowland JACKSON of Ahanesk and Castleview, Co Cork J.P.)

William may have 'come into' the house of Lota Lodge as a result of his marriage, but whatever the case, appears to have lived there from then until his death.

William Henry died at the age of 42 at the Brunswick Hotel, London and was buried at the family vault at Kilmore on 26 Dec 1889

His Will was proved at Cork on 4 June 1890 by his youngest brother, Arthur Frederick SHARMAN-CRAWFORD of the South Mall, Cork, one of the exors, who seems to have inherited Lota Lodge, since his children were born there in 1891 and 1897.

William Henry's early death, predeceasing his father by a couple of years, paved the way for the elder of his surviving brothers, Robert Gordon (the third son - the second brother, Arthur Johnston had already died in 1862 aged only 11), to inherit their father's estates.