Valentine George Crittall

Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom

June 28, 1884 (age 76)

He was defeated by Ruggles-Brise in the 1924 general election, and knighted in 1930. He was elevated to the peerage in 1948, as Baron Braintree, of Braintree in the County of Essex, and was a director of the Bank of England from 1948 to 1955. He was also a Justice of the Peace (magistrate) for Essex. In 1926, Crittall founded the model Village of, 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?" 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.

Valentine George Crittall

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Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom

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Crittall was the son of Essex businessman Francis Henry Crittall, founder of the Crittall window company, and Ellen Laura Carter.

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Crittall was educated at framlingham College in Suffolk.

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He was defeated by Ruggles-Brise in the 1924 general election, and knighted in 1930. He was elevated to the peerage in 1948, as Baron Braintree, of Braintree in the County of Essex, and was a director of the Bank of England from 1948 to 1955. He was also a Justice of the Peace (magistrate) for Essex.

In 1926, Crittall founded the model Village of, 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?"

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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33rd United Kingdom Parliament]

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 Member of Parliament Lieutenant Colonel Edward Ruggles-Brise, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Thomson, the Minister of Air.

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