title: Arthur Stafford Crawley
text: # Arthur Stafford Crawley
  
  Arthur Stafford Crawley MC (18 September 1876 – 8 October 1948) was a Canon of Windsor from 1934 to 1948.
  
  ## Family
  
  He was born in 1876, the youngest son of George Baden Crawley (1833-1879) and Eliza Inez Hulbert.
  
  He married Anstice Katherine Gibbs, daughter of Antony and Janet Gibbs of Tyntesfield, Somerset in 1903. They had five children.
  
  ## Army service
  
  He volunteered as an army chaplain in 1915, and joined the Guards Division in Flanders commanded by his brother-in-law Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan. In 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross following the rescue under fire of wounded soldiers. A bar was later added to the MC.
  
  ## Career
  
  He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He played first-class cricket for Marylebone Cricket Club. He studied for the priesthood at Cuddesdon Theological College.
  
  Following ordination he received the following appointments.
  
  * Assistant curate at Stepney 1901 - 1903
  * Assistant curate at Chelsea 1903 - 1905
  * Vicar of Benenden, Kent 1905 - 1910
  * Vicar of Bishopthorpe 1910 - 1918
  * Vicar of East Meon, Hampshire 1922 – 1924
  * Secretary to the York Diocesan board of finance 1924 – 1928
  * Assistant secretary to the Church of England central board of finance 1928 – 1929
  * Diocesan secretary to the St Albans Diocese 1929 – 1934
  * Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1934 – 1948
  * Chaplain to King George VI 1944 - 1948
  