Percy Crutchley
Percy Edward Crutchley (24 July 1855 – 16 October 1940) was an English amateur cricketer. He was born at Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland, the son of General Charles Crutchley. He went to Harrow, where he played in the First XI in 1873 and 1874, and then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1874. He did not play cricket for Cambridge but won a blue at real tennis.
Crutchley played regular club cricket for I Zingari from 1874 to 1883 and appeared in three first‑class matches (one in each of 1876, 1877 and 1878). In 1876, playing for Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent at Canterbury, he scored 84 and was part of a 227‑run fifth‑wicket stand with W. G. Grace, who made a world‑record 344 in that innings.
He married Frederica Louise Fitzroy on 12 February 1890. She was the daughter of the 3rd Baron Southampton and served as Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria. Their son Victor, born in 1893, became an admiral in the Royal Navy and was awarded the Victoria Cross; Queen Victoria was Victor’s godmother.
Crutchley inherited Sunninghill Park in Berkshire and owned it until selling it in 1936 after his wife’s death in 1932. He was a long‑time member of the Royal Ascot Cricket Club in Berkshire for 57 years and served as its president from 1915 to 1924. He died in Sunninghill, Berkshire, in 1940 at the age of 85.
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