Valentine George Crittall, 1st Baron Braintree was a British politician and businessman who served briefly as a Labour Member of Parliament before later joining the Conservatives. Crittall was the son of Essex businessman Francis Henry Crittall, founder of the Crittall window company, and Ellen Laura Carter.

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  • Valentine George Crittall, 1st Baron Braintree was a British politician and businessman who served briefly as a Labour Member of Parliament before later joining the Conservatives. Crittall was the son of Essex businessman Francis Henry Crittall, founder of the Crittall window company, and Ellen Laura Carter. Crittall was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for the Essex constituency of Maldon in the 1923 general election by a majority of only 49 votes over the sitting Conservative MP Lt Col Edward Ruggles-Brise, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Thomson, the Minister of Air. He was defeated by Ruggles-Brise in the 1924 general election, and knighted in 1930. In 1926, Crittall founded the model Village of Silver End, near Braintree in Essex. Built as a "garden village" to provide accommodation for the people who worked in the Crittall family's growing factories, the village has been described as "a wonder of its time": its motto is "Why not?" He was elevated to the peerage in 1948, as Baron Braintree, and was a director of the Bank of England from 1948 to 1955. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Essex. Crittall was married three times: to Olive Lillian MacDermott, in 1915; to Lydia Mabel Revy in 1933; and to Phyllis Dorothy Cloutman, in 1955. He died aged 76 in 1961, without male children, and his barony therefore became extinct.
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  • Valentine George Crittall, 1st Baron Braintree was a British politician and businessman who served briefly as a Labour Member of Parliament before later joining the Conservatives. Crittall was the son of Essex businessman Francis Henry Crittall, founder of the Crittall window company, and Ellen Laura Carter.
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  • Valentine Crittall, 1st Baron Braintree
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