Smedley Crooke

Sir John Smedley Crooke (1861 – 13 October 1951) was a British politician.^[1] He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Deritend from 1922 to 1929, and from 1931 to 1945.^[1][2] An annual football tournament named the Smedley Crooke Memorial Charity Cup was set up in his name to raise money for blind and visually impaired people.^[3] A street in Hopwood, Worcestershire also bears his name.

Crooke in 1923