(Richard) Stafford Cripps (London, 24 april 1889 - Zurich, 21 april 1952) was an English politician, Member of the Labour Party. His Mother Theresa Cripps was the sister of Beatrice Webbthe socialiste. Cripps studied chemistry and law. During the first world war was Cripps a fierce pacifist and worked for the Red Cross at the front. After the war he was a lawyer. Cripps accepted the Marxist society analysis, but was not a ' whole marxist '. In a survey in 1941 under British newspaper readers after he was elected Prime Minister Anthony Eden best alternative if Churchill not that Office.