| Gerry Crutchley | |
| Fullname: | Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley |
| Birth Date: | 1890 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Chelsea, London |
| Death Place: | St John's Wood, London |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm medium Right-arm legbreak |
| Family: | Edward Crutchley (son) Percy Crutchley (uncle) Hugh Spottiswoode (father-in-law) |
| Club1: | Oxford University |
| Club2: | Middlesex |
| Year2: | 1910–1930 |
| Type1: | FC |
| Debutdate1: | 30 May |
| Debutyear1: | 1910 |
| Debutfor1: | Oxford University |
| Debutagainst1: | Worcestershire |
| Lastdate1: | 25 June |
| Lastyear1: | 1932 |
| Lastfor1: | HDG Leveson-Gower's XI |
| Lastagainst1: | Cambridge University |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 123 |
| Runs1: | 4,112 |
| Bat Avg1: | 22.46 |
| 100S/50S1: | 5/14 |
| Top Score1: | 181 |
| Deliveries1: | 3,845 |
| Wickets1: | 67 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 32.70 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/52 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 54/– |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11470.html CricInfo |
| Date: | 22 December |
| Year: | 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]