William Percival Crozier
William Percival Crozier (1 August 1879 – 16 April 1944) was a British
Manchester Guardian from 1932, when he succeeded Ted Scott
, who had died in a sailing accident, until his death in 1944.
Crozier was born at
minister, and his wife, Elizabeth Hallimond. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in Classics
(1900).
After leaving Oxford, he spent a year as a
photographs and maps, encouraged new features and introduced the daily crossword in 1929. He also developed a deep commitment to Zionism
and became "the leading advocate in the daily press of a Jewish national home" (Morris).
Crozier was made a member of the
ulcer in 1936. In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council.[1]
In 1943 he was diagnosed with the heart condition which proved ultimately to be fatal.
Crozier died at his Manchester home on 16 April 1944, aged 64, just two months before his son Major S.F. Crozier was part of the Military Police operations overseeing logistics landings using the Mulberry Harbours at Gold Beach (Arromanche) after D-Day. He was 'mentioned in dispatches' for this work and later awarded the MBE.
Novels
- Letters of Pontius Pilate: Written During His Governorship of Judea to His Friend Seneca in Rome (1928)
- The Fates are Laughing (1945; published posthumously)[2]
References
- ^ The Liberal Magazine, 1936
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32651. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.) (subscription required)
Further reading
- David Ayerst, Guardian: Biography of a Newspaper (1971) Collins; London
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