Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Crawford

(Lieutenant Colonel) Stuart Crawford is a writer, author, and broadcaster based in Edinburgh. He served for twenty years as an officer in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment (Scotland’s Own) in the British Army reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He left the army in 1999 to stand as a candidate in the first Scottish Parliamentary elections, in which he was unsuccessful. He now works as a political lobbyist with his own consultancy, Stuart Crawford Associates, and as a freelance journalist. He writes a regular column for the Daily Express -

Army Career

Crawford joined his regiment in Munster, West Germany as a troop leader commanding three Chieftain tanks. Although only intending to spend three years in the military on a Short Service Commission, he stayed for twenty as a regular officer. During his time in uniform he served in, or visited, West Germany, France, Canada, southern England, Pakistan, Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia/Kuwait/Iraq during the First Gulf War. He attended both the British Staff College at Camberley and the US Army at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. He also carried out a Defence Research Fellowship at Glasgow University exploring the state of race relations within the British army at the time. Towards the end of his military career he returned to Scotland and commanded the City of Edinburgh Universities Officer Training Corps (CEUOTC) as his final appointment.

Early Life and Education

Stuart Crawford was born in the village of Carmunnock in Lanarkshire (now within the Glasgow City boundary). He attended the village primary school there as had his father and grandfather before him, before going on to be a pupil at Hutchesons’ Boys Grammar School in Glasgow. He completed his 6th form at Millfield School in Somerset before entering Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, from where he graduated in 1976 with an MA in Archaeology, Anthropology, and Land Economy. After qualifying as a chartered surveyor he joined the British army and was commissioned into the 4th Royal Tank Regiment after passing out from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Second Career

Upon leaving the army Crawford was the SNP candidate for the Roxburgh & Berwickshire constituency in the Scottish parliamentary elections, in which he was not elected. He then set up Stuart Crawford Associates, and Edinburgh-based political, defence, and media consultancy which drew its clients from across all three sectors and focused mainly, but not exclusively, on Scottish politics and the Scottish parliament. During this period he was invited to appear before the Select Defence Committee (twice) and the Select Scottish Affairs Committee to answer questions of Scottish defence matters.

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