Harry Craddock (29 August 1876 – 25 January 1963) was an English

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who became one of the most famous bartenders of the 1920s and 1930s. He is known for his tenure at the

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in London, and for his 1930 book, ''The Savoy Cocktail Book''.

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Born in

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, Gloucestershire, Craddock moved to the United States in 1897, where he worked at Cleveland's Hollenden Hotel and New York's Knickerbocker Hotel and Hoffman House, becoming a United States citizen. He left America during

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and sailed to

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with his wife and daughter before joining the

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at the

, London, in 1920. Craddock's ''

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'', a collection of 750 cocktails, was first published in 1930 and is still in print today. He is sometimes credited with creating a number of classic cocktails, including the famous Corpse Reviver #2 and

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. While at the Savoy, Craddock co-founded the United Kingdom Bartenders' Guild in 1934. In 1938, he moved to the

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and then to Brown's Hotel in

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, retiring in 1947. He died in 1963 and was buried in a

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104 cocktails containing absinthe from The Savoy Cocktail Book

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