Gareth Crwys-Williams

{{short description|Welsh cricketer and HM inspector of Schools}}

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| fullname = Gareth Crwys-Williams

| birth_date = 27 December 1907

| birth_place = Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1970|3|8|1907|12|27}}

| death_place = Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales

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| batting = Unknown

| bowling = Left-arm medium-fast

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| club1 = Lincolnshire

| year1 = 1950–1951

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| club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club

| year2 = 1934

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| club3 = Monmouthshire

| year3 = 1932–1933

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 0

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| top score1 = 0*

| deliveries1 = 30

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| date = 28 September

| year = 2018

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11473.html Cricinfo

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Gareth Crwys-Williams OBE (27 December 1907 – 8 March 1970) was a Welsh cricketer and a HM Inspector of Schools.

Crwys-Williams was born at Crickhowell in March 1907. He studied at Downing College, Cambridge, where he played for the college cricket team.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28875/all_teams.html |title=Teams Gareth Crwys-Williams played for |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2018-09-28}} However, he never played for the Cambridge University Cricket Club. He first played minor counties cricket for Monmouthshire in 1932 against Dorset, playing a further Minor Counties Championship match the following year.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28875/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Gareth Crwys-Williams |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2018-09-28}} He made his only appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1934 against Ireland at College Park, Dublin.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28875/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Gareth Crwys-Williams |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2018-09-28}} He later played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire from 1950–1951. He worked as an HM Inspector of Schools, for which he received an OBE for services to in 1969.{{London Gazette |issue=44863 |date=14 June 1969 |supplement=y |page=5793 }} He died at Llangollen, Denbighshire, in March 1970.