Sole survivor of the ur-Pfobbington Krescent and co-author in 1889 with Admiral von Tirpitz of the seminal "Pfobbington Machtspiel: oder Die Wissenschaft vom Mitdembootin-
zusinkenundupderthroatpunchzumachenbevorderbugger-
dichmiteinembelayingpinodereinemmarlinspikescraggen-
kann". 

It is to his long years of service in the Kriegsmarine that von Critchley attributes the many devasting successes of his trademark Umlaut und Unterseeboot Attack. His play also relies perhaps unwisely on unction and personal magnetism [see left].