He left large estates to be devoted to charitable ends, and his benefaction to Lincoln College and to
Oxford University is commemorated in the annual
Creweian Oration. His memory is also perpetuated in
The Lord Crewe Arms Hotel at Blanchland, whose community Crew rebuilt. Crew bought the village in 1708 and on his death in 1721 it passed to his trust, which remains the landlord. Crew also furnished the chapel of
Steane Park,
Northamptonshire, of which he was the owner (having inherited the Steane estate with the Crew barony). Much vilified by the Whig school of historians, Crewe's contributions are now more fully appreciated.
Samuel Pepys thought well of him, praising, in particular, his grave and decent manner of preaching: ==Styles and titles==