Quentin Hugh Crewe was an English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.
12 Facts About Quentin Crewe
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Quentin Crewe wrote regularly for the Evening Standard, Queen magazine, the Daily Mail and Sunday Mirror, among others.
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Quentin Crewe's older half-brother, Terence O'Neill, was a politician who served as the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1963 to 1969.
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Quentin Crewe was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at age 6 and a doctor predicted he would be dead by 16 years old.
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Quentin Crewe's father was keen that he should be a sportsman, and tried to teach him to shoot, fence or ride, without any success.
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Quentin Crewe was educated at Eton, where he was expelled after copying a fire door key and secretly going to London for a day.
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Quentin Crewe went on to Trinity College, Cambridge to study law and economics, but spent so much time partying that he was expelled for indolence.
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Quentin Crewe was falling over so much that he took to walking with a stick, although he did achieve sporting success as a cox.
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Quentin Crewe was married three times: in 1956, to Martha Sharp, with whom he had a son and a daughter; in 1961, to Angela Huth, with whom he had a son and a daughter; and in 1970, to Sue Cavendish, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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Quentin Crewe is credited with inventing the modern restaurant review, which is not only about the food but aims to entertain as well as inform.
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Quentin Crewe notoriously described Wilton's restaurant on Jermyn Street as where the aristocracy were served nursery food by waitresses dressed as nannies.
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Quentin Crewe appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs twice, on 21 January 1984, and on 16 June 1996.