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# Yagura (tower)

Yagura (櫓, 矢倉) is the Japanese word for "tower", "turret", "keep", or "scaffold". The word is most often seen in reference to structures in Japanese castle compounds but can be used in other situations as well. The bandstand tower erected for Bon Festival is often called a yagura, as are similar structures used in other festivals. Yagura-daiko (taiko drumming from atop a yagura) is a traditional part of professional sumo competitions.

## Etymology

There were signs that the first written form of kanji was 櫓 during ancient periods, simply being a character representing a tower before being changed to 矢倉 – in which the former replaced the latter once again. The term originally derives from the use of fortress towers as high/tall or arrow (矢, ya) storehouses (倉, kura), and was thus originally written as 矢倉. The term was used for a collection of towers.
Today, modern towers such as skyscrapers or communications towers are almost exclusively referred to or named using the English-derived word tawā (タワー) and not yagura.

## Castle towers

Castle towers varied widely in shape, size, and purpose. Many served as watchtowers, guardtowers, and for similar military purposes. Arrows were often stored there, with other equipment. As castles served as the luxurious homes of Japan's feudal lords (the daimyō), it was not uncommon for a castle to have an astronomy tower or a tower that provided a good vantage point for enjoying the natural beauty of the scenery.
Japan has rarely feared invasion or maintained border forts. However, it is likely that guardtowers or watchtowers would have been kept, outside of larger castle compounds, at times and places throughout its history.
# Turu language

The Turu or Nyaturu language, Kinyaturu, also known as Rimi Kirimi, is a Bantu language of spoken by the Wanyaturu also known as Arimi of the Singida region of Tanzania. Excluding the Bantu language prefixes Ke- and Ki-, other spellings of the language are Limi and Remi. Dialects of the three Turu tribes are Girwana of the Airwana (Wilwana) in the north, Giahi of the Vahi (Wahi) in the south and west, and Ginyamunyinganyi of the Anyiŋanyi (Wanyinganyi) in the east.

## Phonology
### Consonants

| | | Bilabial | Bilabial | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolar | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal | Post-alv./ Palatal | Velar | Velar | Velar | Uvular | Uvular | Glottal | Glottal |
| | | plain | lab. | pal. | plain | lab. | pal. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | pal. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. |
| Nasal | Nasal | m | mʷ | mʲ | n | nʷ | | ɲ | ɲʷ | ŋ | ŋʷ | | | | | |
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | | | t | | | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃʷ | k | kʷ | kʲ | | | | |
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiced | b | bʷ | | d | dʷ | | d͡ʒ | d͡ʒʷ | ɡ | ɡʷ | | | | | |
| Plosive/ Affricate | prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ᵐpʷ | ᵐpʲ | ⁿt | ⁿtʷ | ⁿtʲ | ᶮt͡ʃ | ᶮt͡ʃʷ | ᵑk | ᵑkʷ | | | | | |
| Plosive/ Affricate | prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ᵐbʷ | ᵐbʲ | ⁿd | ⁿdʷ | ⁿdʲ | ᶮd͡ʒ | ᶮd͡ʒʷ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡʷ | | | | | |
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | ɸʷ | ɸʲ | s | sʷ | sʲ | | | x | xʷ | | | | h | hʷ |
| Fricative | voiced | β | | βʲ | | | | | | ɣ | ɣʷ | | ʁ | ʁʷ | | |
| Fricative | prenasal | | | | ⁿs | ⁿsʷ | | | | ᵑx | ᵑxʷ | | ᶰʁ | | | |
| Flap | voiceless | | | | ɾ̥ | ɾ̥ʷ | ɾ̥ʲ | | | | | | | | | |
| Flap | voiced | | | | ɾ | ɾʷ | ɾʲ | | | | | | | | | |
| Approximant | Approximant | | | | l | lʷ | lʲ | j | jʷ | w | | | | | | |

### Vowels

| | Front | Central | Back |
| Close | i iː | | u uː |
| Near-close | ɪ ɪː | | ʊ ʊː |
| Mid | e eː | | o oː |
| Open | | a aː | |
* Short vowel sounds /e, o/ may also be heard as more open [ɛ, ɔ] as allophones.
# Victoria Road, Port Talbot

Victoria Roadis a field sports stadium located on Victoria Road in Port Talbot, Wales.

## Facilities

The stadium has a capacity of 6,000 (1,000 seated) and is the home of Port Talbot Town F.C. The record attendance at the stadium is 2,640, set at a match against Swansea City in the FAW Premier Cup on 15 January 2007. The record league attendance is 804 for a game against Afan Lido on 27 January 2004, however, the club generally struggle to attract a large number of fans, with an average league attendance of just 207 between 1994 and 2010. In an attempt encourage more people to attend the club's games, spectators were allowed to pay whatever price they wanted for a ticket to watch the club's match against Bala Town on 5 January 2013.
# Lawrence Yule

Lawrence Arden Yule (born 1963) is a New Zealand politician. He was Mayor of Hastings from 2001 to 2017, and a Member of Parliament representing the Tukituki electorate for the National Party from 2017 to 2020.

## Political career
### Mayor of Hastings

Yule became mayor of Hastings in 2001. In this role he presided over the Hastings District Council. When elected he was the youngest person to become mayor of Hastings.
In 2016, the Hastings district was hit by an outbreak of campylobacter in drinking water which affected thousands of people.
In the last mayoral election he stood in, in 2016, Yule received more than 3,000 more votes than his closest rival. Yule announced that his sixth term, starting in 2016, would be his last as mayor.

### National politics

After National MP Craig Foss announced his retirement from politics in December 2016. Yule announced his intention to be selected as the National Party candidate for the electorate of Tukituki and in February 2017, he was selected to contest the 2017 general election. Yule defeated the Labour Party's Anna Lorck, who Yule had previously hired as a public relations consultant for local election campaigns. Yule resigned as Hastings Mayor, resulting in a by-election held in November 2017.
In the 2020 New Zealand general election, Yule stood again for Tukituki, again against Anna Lorck. Yule lost the electorate to Lorck by 1,590 votes, in an election that saw National lose 18 of its 41 electorate seats. The day after the election, Yule admitted defeat and said he had no plans for his future yet.

### Other roles

Yule was the president of Local Government New Zealand. He is also a justice of the peace.

## Personal life

Yule is married to his wife Kerryn. He has four adult children.
# Sudheera de Zoysa

Sudheera de Zoysa (born 8 October 1984) is a Sri Lankan former cricketer. He played in 29 first-class and 38 List A matches between 2001/02 and 2009/10. He made his Twenty20 debut on 17 August 2004, for Nondescripts Cricket Club in the 2004 SLC Twenty20 Tournament. He is one of only a handful of bowlers who have taken four wickets without conceding a run in a first-class match.
# Adnan Raza

Adnan Raza (born 5 December 1987) is a Pakistani former first-class cricketer who played for Lahore cricket team. In February 2021, he began to undertake coaching courses with the Pakistan Cricket Board.
# Monstrotyphis bivaricata

Monstrotyphis bivaricata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
# Phasis (titular see)

Phasis was an ancient and early medieval city on the eastern Black Sea coast, near modern Poti in Georgia.
After the introduction of Christianity Phasis was the see of a Greek diocese one of whose bishops, Cyrus, became a Patriarch of Alexandria between AD 630 and 641.

## Titular see

In 1929, the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular archbishopric of the highest (Metropolitan) rank.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following archiepiscopal incumbents:
* Constantino Ajutti (1925.05.28 – death 1928.07.29) as papal diplomat: Apostolic Delegate (below embassy level) to (then French) Indochina (1925.05.28 – 1928.07.29)
* William Mark Duke (1928.08.10 – 1931.10.05) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) (1928.08.10 – 1931.10.05), later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Vancouver (1931.10.05 – 1964.03.11), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria (1964.03.11 – 1971.08.31)
* Geevarghese Ivanios Giorgio Tommaso Panickerveetil, Order of the Imitation of Christ (O.I.C.) (1932.02.13 – 1932.06.11) as former Founder (1919) and first Superior General of Order of the Imitation of Christ (1919 – 1932.02.13); next first Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars (southern India, Syro-Malankar Rite) (1932.06.11 – death 1953.07.15)
* Jacques Leen, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1933.08.01 – death 1949.12.19), as personal promotion and on emeritate as former Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus (1925.07.15 – 1926.04.16) and Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius) (1925.07.15 – 1926.04.16), succeeding as Bishop of Port-Louis (1926.04.16 – 1949.12.19), then Archbishop ad personam (1933.08.01 – 1949.12.19)
* Louis-Gabriel-Xavier Jantzen (尚唯善), Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1950.10.24 – death 1953.08.28); emeritate as former Titular Bishop of Tremithus (1926.02.16 – 1946.04.11) and last Apostolic Vicar of Chongqing 重慶 (China) (1926.02.16 – 1946.04.11) promoted as first Metropolitan Archbishop of Chongqing 重慶 (1946.04.11 – 1950.10.24)
* Henri Audrain (1954.02.03 – 1955.03.02) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Auch (France) (1954.02.03 – 1955.03.02), succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Auch (1955.03.02 – 1968.04.16), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Mimiana (1968.04.16 – resigned 1970.12.10), died 1982; previously Titular Bishop of Arsinoë in Arcadia (1938.10.22 – 1954.02.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of Versailles (France) (1938.10.22 – 1954.02.03)
* Arturo Mery Beckdorf (1955.04.20 – death 1976.05.28), first as Coadjutor Archbishop of Santiago (Chile) (1955.04.20 – 1961.05.14), then as Auxiliary Bishop of La Serena (Chile) (1961.05.14 – 1963), next as Coadjutor Archbishop of La Serena (1963 – 1976.05.28); previously Titular Bishop of Parnassus (1941.03.22 – 1944.07.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Antofagasta (Chile) (1941.03.22 – 1944.07.29)
# Numaegilina

Numaegilina is a small genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Odostomiidae. It was originally described as a subgenus of Chrysallida but was raised to generic status by Schander et al. (1999).A junior synonym is Paregila Laseron, 1951.

## Shell description

In the original description (Nomura, 1938) it is stated that the difference between this genus and "Egilina" and "Egila" is that the axial riblets are not fused at the upper and lower ends and that the sutures are not channeled. There are spiral threads seen in the intercostae whereas the intercosta in Egilina are smooth.

## Life history

Nothing is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

## Species

Species within the genus Numaegilina include:
* Numaegilina gloria (Nomura, 1938) (Type species) (as Chrysallida (Numaegilina) gloria)
* Numaegilina claudoni (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906)
* Numaegilina henni
* Numaegilina khmeriana Saurin, 1961
* Numaegilina obliquissima Saurin, 1959
* Numaegilina perspectiva
* Numaegilina ventricosa (Saurin, 1958)
# George E. Blake

George E. Blake (17 August 1774 in England – 23 February 1871 in Philadelphia) was an American music engraver and publisher. He was born in Yorkshire, England and, according to his obituary in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, emigrated to the United States when he was sixteen. Other sources disagree on the exact year he arrived in America. What is clear though is that by 1793, he began teaching the flute and the clarinet in Philadelphia, operating out of a room above the shop of music publisher John Aitken on South Third Street. During this period, the city was being ravaged by an outbreak of yellow fever. Unlike many others, Blake chose to stay instead of fleeing the city. He remained in Philadelphia for the rest of his long life.

## Blake's career

In 1802, Blake acquired the rights to piano maker John Isaac Hawkins' factory. By the next year, he had published his first piece of music, and by 1810, he was advertising his services by claiming that he had the largest assortment of music in the country. At the height of his career, from about 1810 to 1830, he was considered one of the most prolific music publishers in the United States. He was one of the first to publish full scores of American musical theater, including the popular 1810 musical by John Bray and J.N. Barker, The Indian Princess (OCLC 9498204). One of his greatest early achievements was a complete edition of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies (OCLC 25580733), which Blake first published in 1808 and continued printing until 1825. During the 1820s and 1830s, he undertook what was then the most ambitious music-publishing project in the United States: the complete vocal works of George Frideric Handel in piano-vocal score over fifteen folio volumes (OCLC 25904395). In around 1830, he published the first American edition of Handel's Messiah (OCLC 12561293). His publications throughout his career were diverse: he printed songs of the Philadelphia theater (based on London theater music), opera librettos, original American compositions, political songs, excerpts from Italian opera, and minstrel music. By the 1850s, Blake stopped publishing music, although he continued selling his earlier publications out of his small store at 13 South Fifth Street, which adjoined 23 South Fifth, the residence of his friend and artist Thomas Sully.
At his death, in his 95th year, Blake was hailed as the oldest publisher in the United States, save and except Lee & Walker, a Philadelphia-based music publisher that had been in existence since 1773. George W. Lee (d. 1875) and Julius Walker (d. 1857) founded their firm in 1848 by acquiring the publishing firm of George Willig (1764–1851), for whom they both once worked. In 1794, George Willig had taken over the firm of Möller & Capron — John Christopher Möller & Henri Capron — which was founded in 1773 as the first music publisher in the United States.
# Salem 66

Salem 66 was an American indie-rock group formed in 1982 by Judy Grunwald, Elisabeth Kaplan and Susan Merriam. At the time, a serious almost-all-female rock band was somewhat unusual. Through the band's existence, it added and subtracted members, including Robert Wilson Rodriguez, Stephen Smith, Tim Condon, and Jim Vincent. Salem 66 lasted until 1989 and was an important part of the Boston alternative indie music scene. They recorded and released records on Homestead Records, a label founded by Gerard Cosloy. Their music was described as folk punk, but they could be called jangle pop and a loose association can be made with the Paisley Underground and groups such as R.E.M.

## Discography

All recordings were released by Homestead Records:
* 1984 - Salem 66 - Six-song 12" EP
* 1984 - "Across the Sea" b/w "Pony Song" - vinyl 7" 45rpm single
* 1985 - "Love & Truth" b/w "Primavera" - vinyl 7" 45rpm single
* 1985 - A Ripping Spin - vinyl LP
* 1987 - Frequency and Urgency - vinyl LP
* 1988 - Natural Disasters, National Treasures - vinyl LP, CD
* 1990 - Down the Primrose Path - vinyl LP, CD
In 1987, Homestead released Your Soul Is Mine, Fork It Over, an 18-song retrospective CD combining selections from all the vinyl-only releases.
# Sven P. Ekman

Sven Petrus Ekman (31 May 1876, Uppsala – 2 February 1964, Uppsala) was a Swedish zoologist, biogeographer, zoogeographer, and limnologist, known for the Ekman grab sampler.
Ekman was the son of the Lutheran pastor Fredrik Ekman and Sofia Ekman, née Svensson. He enrolled at Uppsala University where he received a baccalaureate degree in 1899, a licentiate in 1903, and a doctorate in 1904. He was a lecturer in zoology at Uppsala University from 1904 to 1909 and again from 1916 to 1927. In the intervening years, he taught biology and chemistry at a secondary school in Jönköping from 1909 to 1916. In 1927 he became professor of zoology at Uppsala University; he retired in 1941 as professor emeritus. In 1937 he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1939 to the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.
Ekman rewrote his 1935 German-language book Tiergeographie des Meeres in Swedish and had it translated into English with the title Zoogeography of the Sea (1953). He received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1953 for Zoogeography of the Sea.
The Russian marine scientist, A. I. Kafanov (2006) wrote about the contributions of "Sven Ekman on the 130th anniversary of his birth in the Russian Journal of Marine Biology, especially biogeography and a passage from that article is quoted here:
   As a zoologist, Ekman primarily specialized in studies of freshwater and brackish water crustaceans. He was the author of the first systematized treatise on historical marine biogeography. ... He was the editor of the Swedish edition of the extremely popular "Brehms Thierleben" ("Brehm's Life of Animals") by Alfred Brehm.
Ekman was from 1905 married to Frida Bengtsson (1881–1961). They are buried at Uppsala old cemetery. Their son was the artist Erik Ekman (1906–1986).
# Media, Africa

Media was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria.

## History

Media was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in the papal sway, to become one of the many suffragan dioceses, but was to fade completely, no ruins being identified.
Its only historically documented bishop was Emilius, who attended the synod of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was banished like most Catholic participants, unlike the Donatist heretics.

## Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Media (Latine = Curiate Italian) / Medien(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with archiepiscopal exceptions :
* Antoine Hacault (1964.07.30 – 1972.10.28 see below) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Saint Boniface (Canada) (1964.07.30 – 1972.10.28)
* Titular Archbishop: Antoine Hacault (see above 1972.10.28 – 1974.09.07) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint-Boniface (Canada) (1972.10.28 – 1974.09.07); later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint-Boniface (1974.09.07 – death 2000.04.13)
* Endre Kovács, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (1975.01.07 – death 2007.07.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Eger (Hungary) (1975.01.07 – retired 2003.01.15) and as emeritate
* Petro Herkulan Malchuk, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born Moldova) (2008.03.29 – 2011.06.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Odesa–Simferopol (Ukraine) (2008.03.29 – 2011.06.15); later Archbishop-Bishop of Diocese of Kyïv–Žytomyr (Ukraine) (2011.06.15 – death 2016.05.27)
* Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, Salesians (S.D.B.) (2013.06.18 – ...), as Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo (Paraguay) (2013.06.18 – ...).
# Chaminda Vidanapathirana

Chaminda Wijayakumara Vidanapathirana (born January 25, 1983, in Morawake) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he plays for the Singhalese Sports Club and has represented his country at the under-23 level.
# Dinka (DJ)

Dinka (born Tamara Hunkeler on 24 June; also known as Tamara Maria Kler) is a Swiss DJ from Lucerne. She performs progressive house music with elements of world music, which she describes as "Multicultural Dance Music".
After coming in contact with Above & Beyond, who appreciated her music, Tamara signed with their label, Anjunabeats. She also earned a deal with A State of Trance, a subsidiary of Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren's Armada Music. In September 2012, she reached #2 at the Billboard Next Big Sound chart.
Her stage name comes from the Dinka people from South Sudan. When asked for the reason she chose such a name, she commented:
   I've been amazed by their story of fighting for their culture. And it seemed to be the right start to connect continents. I want people to be aware of everything happening on this planet. And on a second level to accept and share similarities rather than go crazy about differences.

## Discography
### Studio albums

* 2008 The Temptation Album
* 2010 Hotel Summerville
* 2011 Tales of the Sun

### Singles / EPs

* 2007 "The Sin"
* 2007 "The Temptation"
* 2008 "Chemistry"
* 2008 "Wildfire"
* 2008 "Native"
* 2008 "Autumn Leaves" (with Chris Reece)
* 2008 "Asylum"
* 2009 "Temptation" (Vandit Records)
* 2009 "Canonball"
* 2009 "Green Leaf" (feat. Lizzie Curious)
* 2009 "Civilisation / Zero Altitute"
* 2009 "Eyelash"
* 2009 "Elements"
* 2009 "Scarlet"
* 2010 "Elements - Remixes" (inkl. EDX Remix)
* 2010 "Soma Is Language" (with George F. Zimmer)
* 2010 "Some People Will Never Learn"
* 2010 "Aircraft"
* 2010 "Camouflage"
* 2010 "Hive"
* 2010 "Hive - The Remixes" (includes Stan Kolev Remix)
* 2010 "Violet"
* 2011 "Luminal" (with Stan Kolev)
* 2011 "Violet (The Remixes)"
* 2011 "On The Beach"
* 2011 "The Sleeping Beauty"
* 2011 "Reach For Me" (feat. Hadley & Danny Inzerillo)
* 2011 "SkyScraper"
* 2011 "White Christmas"
* 2012 Purple EP
* 2012 "Chariots" (with Leventina)
* 2012 Innocence EP
* 2012 "Lotus"
* 2012 "Radiate" (feat. Julie Thompson)
* 2012 Polarity EP
* 2012 "Inseparable" (feat. Angelika Vee)
* 2013 "Elements" (Reload 2013) with Leventina
* 2013 "Closer"
* 2013 "Waterproof"
* 2014 "Not Okay" (with Tania Zygar)
* 2015 "Breathe"
* 2015 "Ueberflieger" (with Atlantis Ocean)
* 2016 Phobos/Lumino EP (with Atlantis Ocean)
* 2017 "Philomena" (with Erik Iker)
* 2017 "Campfire 2017" (Sons of Maria Retouch)
* 2023 "Delightful"
* 2023 "Turning Leaves"
* 2024 "Escape from Society"
* 2024 "Daytona"
* 2024 "Runaway"
* 2024 "Silent Waves"
* 2024 "Tokyo"
# Ernest Bezzant

Ernest Frederic Bezzant (26 October 1916 – 1 October 2002) was a New Zealand cricketer who played four first-class matches in New Zealand in the 1940s.
Bezzant was born in Wellington and educated at Wellington College. He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
He made his first-class debut for the Royal New Zealand Air Force cricket team in April 1943, scoring 63 and 78 out of team totals of 128 and 278. He played three first-class friendly matches in 1943–44, including two for Wellington, but did not reach 50 in any of them.
# Gordon Burgess

Gordon Charles Burgess OBE (4 October 1918 – 3 September 2000) was a New Zealand cricket player and administrator.

## Life and family

Born in Waihi on 4 October 1918, Burgess was the son of Edith Alice Burgess and Walter Neilson Burgess. He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, and worked for Auckland City Council as a clerk and valuer from 1935 to 1951. In 1942, Burgess married June Frankham, and the couple went on to have three children, including Mark Burgess who played Test cricket for New Zealand.
During World War II, Burgess served as a lieutenant in the New Zealand Army between 1942 and 1944. He completed a Diploma of Urban Valuation at Auckland University College in 1948. From 1951 until his retirement in 1983, Burgess worked in property management for the Auckland Harbour Board.

## Cricket
### Playing career

Burgess played seven first-class matches as a batsman for Auckland between 1940 and 1954. He scored 219 runs, at an average of 18.25, and with a highest score of 35 runs.

### Administration

Burgess was a member of the New Zealand Cricket Council from 1962 to 1971, and was its president from 1979 to 1981. He managed the New Zealand team that toured England, India and Pakistan in 1969. In Pakistan, the team he managed won the three-match Test series 1-0. This was New Zealand's first win in a Test series.
In the 1989 New Year Honours, Burgess was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cricket.

## Death

Burgess died in Auckland on 3 September 2000, and his body was cremated at Purewa Crematorium.
# Roy Crawford (cricketer)

Francis Roy Crawford (23 December 1917 – 29 July 1996) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1937 to 1948.
Roy Crawford was a middle-order batsman and leg-spin bowler. He top-scored for Wellington with 12 and 40 when they were defeated by an innings by the touring Australians in 1945–46. Earlier that season he had also top-scored for Wellington with 55 (out of a total of 130) and 19 when Auckland beat them by an innings.
He married Grace Maher, and served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in World War II with the rank of leading aircraftman.