Education
Winchester College.
Winchester College.
Educated at Winchester College, Cruddas was commissioned into a volunteer battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1899, but the following year transferred to the Regular Army and the Northumberland Fusiliers. He stood down in 1940, and at the Wansbeck by-election on 29 July the Conservative candidate Donald Scott was returned unopposed.
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He was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Wansbeck at the 1931 general election, and returned at the 1935 election.