Gerry Crutchley
English cricketer
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Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley (19 November 1890 – 17 August 1969) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club and Oxford University between 1910 and 1930.
Chelsea, London
St John's Wood, London
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| Full name | Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 November 1890 Chelsea, London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 August 1969 (aged 78) St John's Wood, London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium Right-arm legbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Edward Crutchley (son) Percy Crutchley (uncle) Hugh Spottiswoode (father-in-law) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1910–1912 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1910–1930 | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 30 May 1910 Oxford University v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 25 June 1932 HDG Leveson-Gower's XI v Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 22 December 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crutchley was born at Chelsea, the son of Major-General Sir Charles Crutchley.[1][2] He was educated at Harrow School and New College, Oxford before working as a stockbroker in the City of London. As a cricketer he was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg-breaks and medium pace and who played more than 120 first-class cricket 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 against Cambridge in 1912; overnight he was taken ill with measles and had to sit out the rest of the match.[3]
He made his Middlesex debut in 1910 but played only a handful of matches for the county side before World War I. 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.[4] He was a member of the Committee at Middlesex and President from 1958 to 1962.[5]
Crutchley was commissioned in the Scots Guards during World War I and was a Prisoner of War from January 1915 until he returned to England in November 1918.[3]
He died of heart failure at St John's Wood in 1969 aged 78.[2] He was the father of the actress Rosalie Crutchley.[6]
