Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician who was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour Party member from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative party member from 1962 to 1967. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, he played cricket for Oxford University and Kent. The bulk of his career was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, but he played a few first-class games after the Second World War, while a sitting MP.
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- Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician who was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour Party member from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative party member from 1962 to 1967. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, he played cricket for Oxford University and Kent. The bulk of his career was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, but he played a few first-class games after the Second World War, while a sitting MP. He was also a prisoner of war. He 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. In 1955, he was the first editor-in-chief of Independent Television News and was responsible for introducing American-style newscasters to British media and pledged to transform television's attitudes to politicians. He left ITN after a row when the company tried to trim down the news operations and rejoined the BBC. In 1962, he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative, winning the by-election in West Derbyshire. He held the seat through two general elections, before resigning in 1967 to become Chairman of London Weekend Television where he remained until 1973. He became President of the M.C.C. in 1972. Crawley authored several books, including biographies of Konrad Adenauer and Charles De Gaulle. De Gaulle: A Biography Escape from Germany 1939-1945 Spoils of the War: The Rise of Western Germany 1945-1972 Patterns of Government in Africa Leap before you look: a memoir, 1988. Aidan Crawley was Under-Secretary of State for Air in Clement Attlee's Labour Government; in the 1960s he was Conservative MP for West Derbyshire, and finally, from 1969 to 1973, chairman of London Weekend Television
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- Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician who was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour Party member from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative party member from 1962 to 1967. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, he played cricket for Oxford University and Kent. The bulk of his career was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, but he played a few first-class games after the Second World War, while a sitting MP.
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