Harry Craddock
{{Short description|English bartender (1876–1963)}}
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Harry Craddock (29 August 1876{{Cite web |title=Meetings with Legendary Scotch Drinks, Episode 6, Harry Craddock |url=http://drinkwire.liquor.com/post/meetings-with-legendary-scotch-drinks-episode-6-harry-craddock |publisher=liquor.com}} – 25 January 1963{{Cite web |title=Memorial Service at Harry Craddock's graveside |url=http://savoystomp.com/2013/02/13/gunnersbury-tube-station/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825014359/http://savoystomp.com/2013/02/13/gunnersbury-tube-station/ |archive-date=25 August 2013}}) was an English bartender who became one of the most famous bartenders of the 1920s and 1930s. He is known for his tenure at the Savoy Hotel in London, and for his 1930 book, The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Life and career
Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Craddock moved to the United States in 1897,{{sfn|Williams|2014|p=199}} where he worked at Cleveland's Hollenden Hotel and New York's Knickerbocker Hotel and Hoffman House, becoming a United States citizen.{{Cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Anistatia |last2=Brown |first2=Jared |title=Legendary Mixers - Harry Craddock |date=29 March 2024 |url=http://www.worldsbestbars.com/cocktails-and-more/2012/legendary-mixers/harry-craddock |publisher=worldsbestbars.com}} He left America during Prohibition and sailed to Liverpool with his wife and daughter{{sfn|Williams|2014|p=199}} before joining the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel, London, in 1920.{{Cite web |last=Lascelles |first=Alice |title=Being Harry Craddock |date=27 October 2013 |url=http://punchdrink.com/articles/being-harry-craddock/ |publisher=Punch}}
Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book, a collection of 750 cocktails, was first published in 1930 and is still in print today.{{Cite web |title=Drafts Capture |url=https://capture.getdrafts.com/?redirect=back&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fbooks%2Fsavoy-cocktail-book%2Findex.shtml&text=%5BThe%20Savoy%20Cocktail%20Book%3A%20The%20Coolest%20Book%20in%20the%20World%5D(https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fbooks%2Fsavoy-cocktail-book%2Findex.shtml) |access-date=14 July 2021 |website=capture.getdrafts.com}} He is sometimes credited with creating a number of classic cocktails, including the famous Corpse Reviver #2 and White Lady.{{sfn|Williams|2014|p=200–201}}
While at the Savoy, Craddock co-founded the United Kingdom Bartenders' Guild in 1934. In 1938, he moved to the Dorchester Hotel and then to Brown's Hotel in Mayfair, retiring in 1947. He died in 1963 and was buried in a pauper's grave.{{Cite web |last=Cameron |first=Ian |date=1 August 2012 |title=The Two Harrys |url=http://www.diffordsguide.com/class-magazine/read-online/en/2012-07-31/page-9/the-two-harrys |url-status=dead |publisher=Diffordsguide.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129025848/http://www.diffordsguide.com/class-magazine/read-online/en/2012-07-31/page-9/the-two-harrys |archivedate=29 November 2014}}
See also
References
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Sources
- {{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Olivia |title=Gin Glorious Gin:How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London |date=2014 |publisher=Headline Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4722-1534-5 |location=London}}
External links
- [http://realabsinthe.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-list-of-absinthe-cocktails_30.html 104 cocktails containing absinthe from The Savoy Cocktail Book]
- [http://www.fairmont.com/savoy-london/dining/americanbar/ The American Bar]
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Category:20th-century English non-fiction writers
Category:American expatriates in England
Category:English emigrants to the United States
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