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Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE (10 April 1908 Benenden, Kent – 3 November 1993 Banbury, Oxfordshire)[1] was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician who was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour Party member from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative party member from 1962 to 1967. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Benenden is a village and Civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Banbury is a Market town located on the River Cherwell in northern Oxfordshire, England. History See also History of Oxfordshire The county of Oxfordshire was formed in the early years of the 10th century and is broadly situated in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.

Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, he played cricket for Oxford University and Kent, even playing for the latter whilst an MP in 1947. The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight, or Trinity College for short is one of the Oxford University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Oxford Universities Centre of Cricketing Excellence but retaining its independence is a First-class cricket team representing Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English domestic Cricket structure representing A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was also a prisoner of war. [2]

He was Labour Member of Parliament for Buckingham from 1945 to 1951, when he lost to the Conservative candidate Frank Markham, himself an ex-Labour MP. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Buckingham is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Sir Sydney Frank Markham ( 19 October 1897 &ndash 13 October 1975) was a British politician who represented three parties in

In 1955, he was the first editor-in-chief of Independent Television News and was responsible for introducing American-style newscasters to British media and pledged to transform television's attitudes to politicians. ITN ( Independent Television News) is a major news and content provider with headquarters in the United Kingdom. [3] He left ITN after a row when the company tried to trim down the news operations and rejoined the BBC. [4]

In 1962, he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative, winning the by-election in West Derbyshire. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories A by-election or bye-election (called special election in the United States) is an Election held to fill a political office that has become vacant West Derbyshire is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He held the seat through two general elections,[5] before resigning in 1967 to become Chairman of London Weekend Television where he remained until 1973. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar.

Crawley authored several books, including biographies of Konrad Adenauer and Charles De Gaulle. Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer ( 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 was a German Statesman. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ( 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French General and statesman who led the Free French

Aidan Crawley was Under-Secretary of State for Air in Clement Attlee's Labour Government; in the 1960s he was Conservative MP for West Derbyshire, and finally, from 1969 to 1973, chairman of London Weekend Television

Family

Aidan Crawley was son of (Arthur) Stafford Crawley, himself the youngest son of a successful railway contractor, George Baden Crawley (1833-1879) and his wife Inez, who married as her second husband Rear-Admiral JE Pringle. The Under-Secretary of State for Air was a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom Government supporting the Secretary of State for Air. His mother was the former Anstice Gibbs (usually known as Nancy), sixth of the ten children of Antony and Janet Gibbs of Tyntesfield, Somerset. Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival estate near Wraxall, North Somerset, England, in the Vale of Nailsea, seven miles from Stafford Crawley was the brother-in-law of the Earl of Cavan; his wife was related to the Lords Wraxall, of Tyntesfield and the Lords Aldenham and Hunsdon. The title Earl of Cavan was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1647 for Charles Lambart 2nd Baron Lambart. V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː Baron Aldenham, of Aldenham in the County of Hertford is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 31 January 1896 for the businessman Baron Hunsdon is a title that has been created twice It was first created in 1559 in the Peerage of England for the soldier and courtier Henry Carey. Stafford Crawley was chaplain to the Archbishop at Bishopthorpe and later Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor. The Crawleys had three sons and two daughters, of whom Aidan was the middle son. [6]. One of his sisters was Anstice, Lady Goodman. [7]

In 1945, he married the sometime war correspondent Virginia Cowles OBE (24 August 1910 Brattleboro, Vermont-6 September 1983 near Biarritz in a car crash)[8][9] with whom he had 3 children; however, he lost both his sons tragically. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Brattleboro is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state along the state line with New Hampshire Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Biarritz ( French: Biarritz, bjaˈʀits Gascon Occitan: Biàrritz; Basque: Biarritz or Miarritze is a town Both his sons died in a plane crash together, leaving issue and widows who were seven months pregnant. At the time of his death, Crawley was virtually penniless, having lost heavily in the Lloyds crash. [10] He was survived by his daughter Harriet, his daughters-in-law and several grandchildren. The elder son The younger son

Children:

Crawley's niece Penelope Crawley married Lord Guernsey (b. Earl of Aylesford, in the County of Kent is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. 1947, the heir to the 11th Earl of Aylesford and has issue, including one son. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Earl of Aylesford, in the County of Kent is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Notes

  1. ^ Aidan Merivale Crawley entry in Cricinfo database online. [1], Retrieved 18 September 2007.
  2. ^ Hansard debates for 22 May 1997. [2]. Retrieved 18 September 2007. "Aidan Crawley was elected as the first Labour Member of Parliament for Buckingham in 1945. He lost the seat and was elected elsewhere as a Conservative Member of Parliament. "
  3. ^ " Boring old blokes on TV - an A to Z: The changing culture of the political interview" The Guardian Saturday November 11, 2000 [3] and [4]. Also see "A Brief History of Broadcast Journalism: The Early Years" [5]. Retrieved 18 September 2007.
  4. ^ Aidan Crawley profile. "He appeared on 'In the News' and 'Viewfinder' on BBC, and became Independent Television News's first editor-in-chief, but later rejoined the BBC. [6]. See also [7]. Retrieved 18 September 2007.
  5. ^ Phillip Whitehead obituary notes that he was defeated by the former Labourite, now Conservative, Aidan Crawley in 1966. "Whitehead's first attempt at Parliament was in the 1966 general election when as vice-chairman of the Young Fabian Group he was selected to take on Aidan Crawley in West Derbyshire. It was a particularly acrimonious campaign. Crawley was well known on the television screen and had been a much-favoured young minister in the Attlee government when he was a Labour MP for Buckingham, 1945-51, as Under-Secretary for Air. In 1957 he had resigned from the Labour Party and had been adopted as Conservative candidate in 1959. Crawley won by 18,383 votes to Whitehead's 13,791 with Mrs M. V. Edwards for the Liberals gaining 4,874. " [8]. Retrieved 18 September 2007.
  6. ^ Crawley family papers. [9]. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
  7. ^ Lady Goodman obituary. The Daily Telegraph. [10]. Retrieved 18 September 2007
  8. ^ "Virginia Cowles1 (F) b. 24 August 1910, d. 16 September 1983" The Peerage database, last edited 31 January 2005. [11]. Retrieved 18 September 2007
  9. ^ Virginia Cowles [12]
  10. ^ " Ayer's adopted son dies" The Daily Telegraph, 2004. [13] Harriet Crawley loses her husband Julian Ayer, adoptive son of the philosopher Freddie Ayer, in the 2004 tsunami.
  11. ^ Julian Ayer, whom she met in 1999, was the adoptive son of the philosopher Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, or "Freddie" Ayer (1910-1989), and apparently (per the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), the elder child of philosopher Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (1914-2004) by (Grace Isabel) Renée Ayer, née Orde-Lees (d. Sir Alfred Jules ("Freddie" Ayer ( October 29, 1910 &ndash June 27, 1989) better known as A Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire ( 1 October 1914 - 13 June 2004) was an Oxford University Philosopher, Literary critic 1980), who was Ayer's wife at the time. Hampshire married Renee in 1961, twenty years after her first husband divorced her. However, Ayer acknowledged the child Julian as his. See A. Ryan, ‘Hampshire, Sir Stuart Newton (1914–2004)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008 [14], accessed 12 Feb 2008 from then publicly available page
  12. ^ "14 ordinary lives remembered from the 125,000 who perished" The Times 31 December 2004. [15]
  13. ^ Harriet Crawley speaks about the Crawley Gap Year Scholarships in memory of her brothers. [16] Retrieved 18 September 2007.
  14. ^ " Ayer's adopted son dies" The Daily Telegraph, 2004. Ibid.
  15. ^ Spencer Crawley's father is allegedly Douglas Percy Codrington Nation (1942-2001), father of Tanya Marie Nation, now married to the Marquess of Hamilton. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. James Hamilton 5th Duke of Abercorn, KG (born 4 July 1934) is the current Duke of Abercorn in Hamilton is the nephew of Harriet's sister-in-law Marita Crawley, nee Phillips.

References

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Lionel Berry		 Member of Parliament for Buckingham
1945–1951		 Succeeded by
Frank Markham
Preceded by
Edward Wakefield		 Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire
1962–1967		 Succeeded by
James Scott-Hopkins
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