Arthur Stafford Crawley
# Arthur Stafford Crawley

Arthur Stafford Crawley MC (18 September 1876 – 8 October 1948) was a Canon of Windsor from 1934 to 1948.

## Family

He was born in 1876, the youngest son of George Baden Crawley (1833-1879) and Eliza Inez Hulbert.

He married Anstice Katherine Gibbs, daughter of Antony and Janet Gibbs of Tyntesfield, Somerset in 1903. They had five children.

## Army service

He volunteered as an army chaplain in 1915, and joined the Guards Division in Flanders commanded by his brother-in-law Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan. In 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross following the rescue under fire of wounded soldiers. A bar was later added to the MC.

## Career

He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He played first-class cricket for Marylebone Cricket Club. He studied for the priesthood at Cuddesdon Theological College.

Following ordination he received the following appointments.

* Assistant curate at Stepney 1901 - 1903
* Assistant curate at Chelsea 1903 - 1905
* Vicar of Benenden, Kent 1905 - 1910
* Vicar of Bishopthorpe 1910 - 1918
* Vicar of East Meon, Hampshire 1922 – 1924
* Secretary to the York Diocesan board of finance 1924 – 1928
* Assistant secretary to the Church of England central board of finance 1928 – 1929
* Diocesan secretary to the St Albans Diocese 1929 – 1934
* Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1934 – 1948
* Chaplain to King George VI 1944 - 1948
