Aidan Merivale Crawley MBE (10 April 1908 – 3 November 1993)[1] was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician.

[6] He played only six more first-class matches after the end of the 1932 season, four of which took place after the Second World War whilst he was a sitting MP.

After serving on night patrols over the English Channel he was sent ostensibly as an assistant air attaché to Turkey in April 1940, cover for intelligence work in the Balkans in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, being smuggled out of Sofia when the Germans invaded the latter country in March 1941.

[8] Crawley 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.

[11] Crawley wrote several books, including biographies of Konrad Adenauer and Charles De Gaulle.

Stafford Crawley was chaplain to the Archbishop of York at Bishopthorpe and later Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Five years later, he lost both his sons in a plane crash whilst they were travelling together to their sister's 40th birthday party, leaving young children and widows who were seven months pregnant.