Person    | Male  Born 23/2/1890  Died 9/2/1963

Brigadier-General Alfred Critchley

Air Commodore Alfred Cecil Critchley, CMG, CBE, DSO was a military commander, entrepreneur and politician. Conservative MP 1934-5.

Born in what is now Alberta, Canada and brought to England at the age of nine. 1907-18 was in the Canadian army.  1918-9 was in the Royal Flying Corps where he gained the rank of Brigadier-General.

After WW1 he entered the business world. In 1926 he helped form the private company, the Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) and with this he became a significant sporting entrepreneur in the UK. In London the GRA  purchased the White City Stadium and built both the Harringay Stadium (1927) and Harringay Arena (1936).

Director general of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (which later became BA) 1943-6.

1953 he suffered a severe infection which caused him to go blind.

This photo shows him in 1943.

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