Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley (19 November 1890 – 17 August 1969) was an English

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er who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club and

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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

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. As a cricketer he was a right-handed

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who

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s and medium pace and who played more than 120

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

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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, ''

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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

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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

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during

and was a Prisoner of War from January 1915 until he returned to England in November 1918. He died of heart failure at

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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, ''

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'', 18 August 1969, p.16.
Available online
at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2019-12-22. )

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