Robert Crichton

Robert Young Crichton (18 August 1897 — 29 July 1940) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Born in Downpatrick, Crichton was the son of a newspaper editor, who was proprietor of the Down Recorder.

Crichton attended Belfast's Campbell College and had four years in the first XV, earning Ulster Schools representative honours. He was captain of Dublin University in 1924–25, while studying medicine at Trinity College.

A bulky forward, Crichton was capped 15 times for Ireland during the early 1920s, as a second row forward and occasional prop, in addition to an appearance with a combined Ireland-Scotland team in the 1923 centenary match.