Gerry Crutchley

Gerry Crutchley

Personal information
Full name	Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley
Born	(1890-11-19)19 November 1890 Chelsea, London
Died	17 August 1969(1969-08-17) (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)
Domestic team information
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
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 123 Runs scored 4,112 Batting average 22.46 100s/50s 5/14 Top score 181 Balls bowled 3,845 Wickets 67 Bowling average 32.70 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 4/52 Catches/stumpings 54/–
Source: CricInfo, 22 December 2019

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.

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]

References

1. Dauglish MG, Stephenson PK (1911) The Harrow School Register, 1800–1911, p.849. London: Longmans, Green & Co. (Available online. Retrieved 2019-12-22.)
2. Gerald Crutchley. CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
3. Crutchley, Gerald Edward Victor, Obituaries in 1969, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
4. Gerry Crutchley, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-12-21. (subscription required)
5. Gerry Crutchley, Middlesex County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
6. Deaths, The Times, 18 August 1969, p.16. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2019-12-22. (subscription required))

External links

• Gerry Crutchley at ESPNcricinfo