In Black Mischief (1932) "Cruttwell" is a social parasite, and he becomes a dubious "bone-setter" in A Handful of Dust (1934).
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Thus, in Decline and Fall (1928) "Toby Cruttwell" is a psychopathic burglar; in Vile Bodies (1930) the name belongs to a snobbish Conservative MP.
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As a historian, Cruttwell was an accepted authority on the political and military history of the Rhineland.
C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, a British historian and academic who served as dean and later principal of Hertford College, Oxford.