Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley (19 November 1890 – 17 August 1969) was an English
first-class cricket
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er who played for
Middlesex County Cricket Club and
Oxford University
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between 1910 and 1930.
Crutchley was born at
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, the son of Major-General Sir Charles Crutchley.
[Dauglish MG, Stephenson PK (1911) ''The Harrow School Register, 1800–1911'', p.849. London: Longmans, Green & Co.]
Available online
Retrieved 2019-12-22.)
CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-12-21. He was educated at
Harrow School and
New College, Oxford before working as a
stockbroker in the
City of London
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. As a cricketer he was a right-handed
batsman
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who
bowled
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Second, it is a method of dismissing a batsman, by hitting the wicket with a ball delivered by the bowler. (Th ...
leg-break
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s and medium pace and who played more than 120
first-class cricket
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matches. He had played for his school XI and won a
cricket Blue at Oxford, playing for the University between 1910 and 1912. He made 99 runs
not out
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against Cambridge in 1912; overnight he was taken ill with
measles and had to sit out the rest of the match.
[Crutchley, Gerald Edward Victor]
Obituaries in 1969, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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'', 1970. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
He made his Middlesex debut in 1910 but played only a handful of matches for the county side before
World War I
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. After the war he played more regularly, both for Middlesex and for a variety of amateur sides, including for the
Gentlemen against the Players four times.
[Gerry Crutchley]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-12-21. He was a member of the Committee at Middlesex and President from 1958 to 1962.
[Gerry Crutchley]
Middlesex County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
Crutchley was
commissioned in the
Scots Guards
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during
World War I
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and was a Prisoner of War from January 1915 until he returned to England in November 1918.
[
He died of heart failure at ]St John's Wood
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in 1969 aged 78.[ He was the father of the actress ]Rosalie Crutchley
Rosalie Sylvia Crutchley (4 January 1920 – 28 July 1997) was a British actress. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Crutchley was perhaps best known for her television performances, but had a long and successful career in theatre and films, ...
.[Deaths, '']The Times
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'', 18 August 1969, p.16.
Available online
at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2019-12-22. )
References
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1890 births
1969 deaths
English cricketers
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English stockbrokers
Scots Guards officers
British World War I prisoners of war
People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Presidents of Middlesex County Cricket Club
English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
20th-century English businesspeople
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