{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Arthur Cridlan | image = | caption = | full_name = Arthur Gordon Cridlan | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|07|09|df=y}} | birth_place = Ealing, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|01|17|1909|07|09|df=y}} | death_place = Exeter, England | height = | weight = | occupation = Hotel manager | school = Uppingham School | university = University of Oxford | relatives = | position = Wing-forward | repyears1 = 1935 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 3 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Arthur Gordon Cridlan''' (9 July 1909 – 17 January 1993) was an English international rugby union player.
Cridlan was born in Ealing and attended Uppingham School, where he captained the rugby team in 1926–27.<ref>{{cite news |title=Blue For A. G. Cridlan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/792035506 |work=The Citizen |date=29 November 1928}}</ref>
A three-time Oxford blue, Cridlan spent the remainder of his rugby career with Blackheath and in 1935 played wing-forward for England in three Home Nations matches, debuting against Wales at Twickenham.<ref>{{cite news |title=Can Giles Hold Veteran Powell? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/789819171 |work=Daily Mirror |date=19 January 1935}}</ref>
Cridlan was director of the Regent Hotel in Leamington Spa.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hotel boss saw transformation |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005354/19930122/089/0007 |work=Warwick Courier |date=22 January 1993}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|4246}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cridlan, Arthur}} Category:1909 births Category:1993 deaths Category:English rugby union players Category:England international rugby union players Category:Rugby union wing-forwards Category:Rugby union players from the London Borough of Ealing Category:Blackheath F.C. players Category:Oxford University RFC players Category:People educated at Uppingham School Category:20th-century English sportsmen