Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton

Sir Andrew James Maitland-Makgill-Crichton FRSA, FCIT (28 December 1910 – 29 October 1995), known professionally as Andrew Crichton, was a British shipping industrialist. He was Chairman of Overseas Containers Limited, Vice-chairman of the Port of London Authority between 1967 and 1976, and a director of P&O for nearly a quarter of a century.

Early life and family Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton was born on 28 December 1910, the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel David Edward Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1879–1952) and his wife, Phyllis (died 1982), daughter of Claude Arthur Cuthbert, of Bryn Garth in Herefordshire.

His brother David drowned in 1941, while serving in World War II; another brother, Edward, was an army officer and rose to the rank of major-general; of his two sisters, Katherine Grizel married a doctor and moved to the United States, and Jean Beatrice married the second Baron Morris. A paternal uncle, Henry, was a brigadier in the army. In 1948, Andrew Crichton married Isabel (died 1997), a daughter of Andrew Joseph McGill and a widow of John Eric Bain; the marriage produced no children.

In the years before World War II, he worked at their offices in Colombo, Ceylon, and latterly in Bombay. During the war, he was seconded to the Government Headquarters in Delhi as the deputy director of Movements with responsibility for shipping with the rank of lieutenant colonel. It was there that he was tasked with overseeing large savings in cost and time before he retired in 1973.

Personal life A likeness was created of Sir Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton by Godfrey Argent, bromide print, 19 February 1970 (10 7/8 inch x 8 inch/275 mm x 202 mm). Held in the National Portrait Gallery.