Wilfred Griffin Eady

Sir Crawfurd Wilfred Griffin Eady (27 September 1890 – 9 January 1962) was a British civil servant and diplomat.

Although often referred to by the spelling 'Wilfred' as shown above, the original spelling was 'Wilfrid', as evidenced by his gravestone, probate record, death index and 1921 census form.

Eady was born in the village of Villa Nueva, Argentina, the son of George Griffin Eady, a railway civil engineer, and Lilian Armstrong D'Olivier Millar, the daughter of Gen. John Crawfurd Millar. He was educated at Clifton College, and read classics at Jesus College, Cambridge leaving with first-class honours in 1912.

Eady was the Principal of The Working Men's College from 1949 to 1955. Liberal Education, the raison d'etre of the College, was defined by Eady as "... something you can enjoy for its own sake, something which is a personal possession and an inward enrichment, and something which teaches a sense of values."

Between 1949 and 1951, he was the chairman of Civil Service Benevolent Fund.

in 1957, Eady gave his name to the Eady Levy on cinema ticket sales, a tax designed and introduced by President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson who said: "If you want to get a measure adopted, name it after the civil servant who would have to implement it."

His son was the film director David Eady.

He died in 1962 and was buried at Rodmell, Sussex, England.