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	In the late 1930s, Cradock-Watson played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Northern India cricket team\|Northern India]] on three occasions in the [[Ranji Trophy]] from 1937 to 1939; he also made three first-class appearances for the [[Europeans cricket team]] from 1937 to 1940, including one appearance apiece in both the [[Bombay Quadrangular\|Bombay Pentangular]] and [[Madras Presidency Matches]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13232/First-Class_Matches.html\|title=First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Cradock-Watson\|publisher=CricketArchive\|access-date=2022-02-11\|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In six first-class matches, he scored 179 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)\|average]] of 14.91 and with a highest score of 33. A [[wicket-keeper]] while fielding, he took 6 catches and made 4 [[stumping]]s.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13232/f_Batting_by_Team.html\|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Geoffrey Cradock-Watson\|publisher=CricketArchive\|access-date=2022-02-11\|url-access=subscription}}</ref>		In the late 1930s, Cradock-Watson played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Northern India cricket team\|Northern India]] on three occasions in the [[Ranji Trophy]] from 1937 to 1939; he also made three first-class appearances for the [[Europeans cricket team]] from 1937 to 1940, including one appearance apiece in both the [[Bombay Quadrangular\|Bombay Pentangular]] and [[Madras Presidency Matches]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13232/First-Class_Matches.html\|title=First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Cradock-Watson\|publisher=CricketArchive\|access-date=2022-02-11\|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In six first-class matches, he scored 179 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)\|average]] of 14.91 and with a highest score of 33. A [[wicket-keeper]] while fielding, he took 6 catches and made 4 [[stumping]]s.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13232/f_Batting_by_Team.html\|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Geoffrey Cradock-Watson\|publisher=CricketArchive\|access-date=2022-02-11\|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

	He served with the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve]] in the [[Second World War]], being commissioned as a [[Pilot officer#RAF usage\|pilot officer]] in the administrative and special duties branch.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=35114\|date=21 March 1941\|page=1664}}</ref> He was promoted to the [[Military rank#Types of rank\|war substantive]] rank of [[flying officer]] in January 1942,<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=35483\|date=10 March 1942\|page=1122}}</ref> gaining the rank in full in November 1943.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=36340\|date=18 January 1944\|page=425}}</ref> Cradock-Watson was made an [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] in the [[1944 New Year Honours]].~~<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=36309\|date=31 December 1943\|page=18\|supp=y}}</ref>~~<ref name=livecho>{{cite news \|title=O.B.E. for Wing Commander \|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19440113/069/0003 \|access-date=11 February 2022 \|work=The Liverpool Echo \|date=13 January 1944 \|page=3 \|via=British Newspaper Archive \|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was [[mentioned in dispatches]] in January 1945, at which point he held the acting rank of [[wing commander]].<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=36866\|date=29 December 1944\|page=63\|supp=y}}</ref> He served in both the European and Middle Eastern theatres.<ref name="BOOK"/> Following the end of the war, he was decorated by the United States as an Officer of the [[Legion of Merit]] in October 1945, in recognition of valuable services rendered during the war.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=37300\|date=5 October 1945\|page=4958\|supp=y}}</ref> After the war he resumed his career in the petroleum industry, working as an aviation manager for the [[Asiatic Petroleum Company]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Cradock-Watson died at [[Gloucester]] in June 1989.		He served with the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve]] in the [[Second World War]], being commissioned as a [[Pilot officer#RAF usage\|pilot officer]] in the administrative and special duties branch.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=35114\|date=21 March 1941\|page=1664}}</ref> He was promoted to the [[Military rank#Types of rank\|war substantive]] rank of [[flying officer]] in January 1942,<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=35483\|date=10 March 1942\|page=1122}}</ref> gaining the rank in full in November 1943.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=36340\|date=18 January 1944\|page=425}}</ref> Cradock-Watson was made an [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] in the [[1944 New Year Honours]].<ref name=livecho>{{cite news \|title=O.B.E. for Wing Commander \|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19440113/069/0003 \|access-date=11 February 2022 \|work=The Liverpool Echo \|date=13 January 1944 \|page=3 \|via=British Newspaper Archive \|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=36309\|date=31 December 1943\|page=18\|supp=y}}</ref> He was [[mentioned in dispatches]] in January 1945, at which point he held the acting rank of [[wing commander]].<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=36866\|date=29 December 1944\|page=63\|supp=y}}</ref> He served in both the European and Middle Eastern theatres.<ref name="BOOK"/> Following the end of the war, he was decorated by the United States as an Officer of the [[Legion of Merit]] in October 1945, in recognition of valuable services rendered during the war.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=37300\|date=5 October 1945\|page=4958\|supp=y}}</ref> After the war he resumed his career in the petroleum industry, working as an aviation manager for the [[Asiatic Petroleum Company]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Cradock-Watson died at [[Gloucester]] in June 1989.

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{{Short description|English cricketer (1908–1989)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Geoffrey Cradock-Watson
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Geoffrey Gillman Cradock-Watson
| birth_date = 22 August 1908
| birth_place = [[Great Crosby]], [[Lancashire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|6|24|1908|8|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Gloucester]], [[Gloucestershire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| club1 = [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1937/38–1938/39}}
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1937/38–1939/40
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 6
| runs1 = 179
| bat avg1 = 14.91
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 33
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 6/4
| date = 11 February
| year = 2022
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/27746.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Geoffrey Gillman Cradock-Watson''' {{postnominal|OBE}} (22 August 1908 — 24 June 1989) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er who played in India and an aviator.

Cradock-Watson was born at [[Great Crosby]] in [[Lancashire]] in August 1908. He was educated in Crosby at the [[Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby|Merchant Taylors' Boys' School]], where his father was headmaster. At school, he captained the cricket team.<ref name=livecho/> He matriculated to [[St John's College, Oxford]],<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=The Aeroplane Directory of British Aviation|publisher=English Universities Press|first1=C. P.|last1=Bracken|first2=Theodore Stanhope|last2=Sprigg|first3=W. C. M.|last3=Whittle|first4=William Lockwood|last4=Marsh|year=1966|page=382|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wcwpAQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> where he gained a [[half blue]] in athletics.<ref name=livecho/>

After graduating from Oxford, Cradock-Watson began a career in the petroleum industry for [[Shell plc|Shell International]]. His first position was in [[British Burma]], which was then administered as part of [[British India]], where he was a marketing assistant from 1930 to 1940.<ref name="BOOK"/>

In the late 1930s, Cradock-Watson played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]] on three occasions in the [[Ranji Trophy]] from 1937 to 1939; he also made three first-class appearances for the [[Europeans cricket team]] from 1937 to 1940, including one appearance apiece in both the [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Pentangular]] and [[Madras Presidency Matches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13232/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Cradock-Watson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-02-11|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In six first-class matches, he scored 179 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 14.91 and with a highest score of 33. A [[wicket-keeper]] while fielding, he took 6 catches and made 4 [[stumping]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13232/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Geoffrey Cradock-Watson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2022-02-11|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He served with the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve]] in the [[Second World War]], being commissioned as a [[Pilot officer#RAF usage|pilot officer]] in the administrative and special duties branch.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35114|date=21 March 1941|page=1664}}</ref> He was promoted to the [[Military rank#Types of rank|war substantive]] rank of [[flying officer]] in January 1942,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35483|date=10 March 1942|page=1122}}</ref> gaining the rank in full in November 1943.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36340|date=18 January 1944|page=425}}</ref> Cradock-Watson was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the [[1944 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36309|date=31 December 1943|page=18|supp=y}}</ref><ref name=livecho>{{cite news |title=O.B.E. for Wing Commander |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19440113/069/0003 |access-date=11 February 2022 |work=The Liverpool Echo |date=13 January 1944 |page=3 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was [[mentioned in dispatches]] in January 1945, at which point he held the acting rank of [[wing commander]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36866|date=29 December 1944|page=63|supp=y}}</ref> He served in both the European and Middle Eastern theatres.<ref name="BOOK"/> Following the end of the war, he was decorated by the United States as an Officer of the [[Legion of Merit]] in October 1945, in recognition of valuable services rendered during the war.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37300|date=5 October 1945|page=4958|supp=y}}</ref> After the war he resumed his career in the petroleum industry, working as an aviation manager for the [[Asiatic Petroleum Company]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Cradock-Watson died at [[Gloucester]] in June 1989.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27746}}

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