Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847–1911) was an English cleric, headmaster and classical scholar, known as a historian of Roman literature.
He was born in London on 30 July 1847, eldest son of Charles James Cruttwell, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, and his wife Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Admiral Thomas Sanders. Educated underJames Augustus Hessey atMerchant Taylors' School, London (1861–6), he went on with a foundation scholarship toSt John's College, Oxford, in 1866. Placed in the first class in classical moderations in 1868 and inliteræ humaniores in 1870, he obtained the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarship in 1869, won the Craven scholarship for classics in 1871, and theKennicott Hebrew Scholarship in 1872. He graduated B.A. in 1871, proceeding M.A. in 1874, and was classical moderator (1873–5). Meanwhile, he was elected fellow ofMerton College in 1870, and was tutor there 1874–7.[1]
Ordained deacon by thebishop of Oxford in 1875 and priest in 1876, Cruttwell was curate ofSt Giles', Oxford, from 1875 till 1877 when he left forBradfield College, where he was headmaster. In 1880 he moved on to the headmastership ofMalvern College, resigning in 1885 to become rector ofSutton, Surrey. A few months later he was appointed rector ofDenton, Norfolk, and in 1891 he accepted from Merton College the benefice ofKibworth-Beauchamp in succession toEdmund Knox. While at Kibworth he was also rector ofSmeeton-Westerby, Leicestershire (1891–4),rural dean ofGartree (1892–1902), examining chaplain to the bishop of Peterborough (1900), and proctor in convocation (1900).[1]
In 1901 Cruttwell was nominated byLord Salisbury to the crown benefice ofEwelme, Oxfordshire, and in 1903 he was collated by the bishop of Peterborough to a residential canonry. Cruttwell was also select preacher to Oxford University in 1896–8, and again in 1903–5. In 1909 he joined a clerical party who visited Germany in the cause of international peace. He died at Ewelme on 4 April 1911.[1]
Cruttwell published:[1]
Cruttwell married on 5 August 1884 Anne Maude, eldest daughter ofSir John Robert Mowbray, 1st Baronet. They had three sons, includingCharles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell, and one daughter.[2]
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Cruttwell, Charles Thomas".Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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