From, A Review of TONY CROSLAND – a biography by Susan Crosland, reproduced on mybrethren
Joseph Beardsell Crosland, went to Trinity College, Oxford, via Manchester Grammar School. After a successful career in Whitehall he became No. 2 at the War Office under Churchill, who once told Mrs. Crosland: 'Your husband is the truest Christian gentleman I've ever known'.
