Colonel Basil Edwin Crockett DSO & Two Bars (14 July 1877 – 13 October 1939) was a senior officer in the British Army.

Educated at Wellington, and Sandhurst, he commissioned into the 17th Lancers before attending Staff College in Poona, India.

[2] After a spell with the Leicestershire Regiment, a transfer Crockett made so he could concentrate on his passion of fox hunting, but subsequently regretted.

[3] Crockett had a lifelong passion for the motor car and bought a new car every year of his life from about 1900; this passion was shared by his wife Jessie Shelia Sinclair-Thomson, whom he married in Bombay Cathedral in 1910; for their honeymoon Crockett and his new wife undertook the perilous motor journey from Bombay to Madras, the first time this had been made.

[4] He died in 1939, somewhat impecunious, having invested his family's money in an ill-advised motor industry venture with an American partner who subsequently disappeared.