Cosmo Crawley
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| Full name | Cosmo Stafford Crawley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 May 1904 Chelsea, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 February 1989 (aged 84) Westminster, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1929 | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924–1925 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1923 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 December 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cosmo Stafford Crawley (27 May 1904 – 10 February 1989) was an English cricketer, rackets player and real tennis player.
Early life
Crawley was the eldest son of
Cricket
Crawley was a right-handed
Rackets and real tennis
Crawley played rackets for Harrow, and both rackets and real tennis for Oxford. He won the British amateur rackets doubles championship in 1936 and 1937 with J.C.F. Simpson, and in 1939 and 1946 with J.H. Pawle.[1] He and Pawle also won the 1939 amateur real tennis doubles, beating the 3rd and 4th Lord Aberdares, then aged 54 and 20, in the final.[2]
Later life
Crawley joined the insurance broking firm of C.T. Bowring & Co. in 1925 and was a director 1934–67 and a consultant to the firm 1967–73. He was an underwriting member of
, on 10 February 1989.References
- ^ "Amateur Doubles Championship" (PDF). Tennis & Rackets Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "Lord Aberdare". The Telegraph. 28 January 2005.
- ^ "Cosmo Stafford Crawley". The Gibbs Family Tree.
- ^ "No. 34698". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 September 1939. p. 6649.
External links
- Cosmo Crawley at Cricinfo
- Cosmo Crawley at CricketArchive
- Matches and detailed statistics for Cosmo Crawley at CricketArchive
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