Post by Matthew Crawford on Aug 14, 2012 5:16:02 GMT -5
NICKNAME • Matt, Mattie
AGE/BIRTHDAY • 27 (born 2nd May 1985)
ZODIAC • Taurus
PLACE OF BIRTH • England
ETHNICITY/NATIONALITY • White British
HEIGHT/WEIGHT • 5'7", 145lb
SEXUALITY • Straight
FAMILY • Parents and 2 older brothers still living in England.
RELATIONSHIPS • Married to Ruth, or "Ru" to him, Crawford (née Ledger)
EDUCATION • College
RELIGION • Atheist
LANGUAGES SPOKEN • English, French, and a little bit of German
ECONOMIC STATUS • Wealthy
CRIMINAL RECORD • Clean, apart from a few incidents with the police when he was a teenager
OCCUPATION • Horse breeder, trainer and competitor. Also stable manager.
PETS • None
TATTOOS/PIERCINGS • None
LIFETIME ASPIRATION • Master Romancer
TRAITS • Bookworm, Equestrian, Flirty, Great Kisser, Athletic
FAVORITE FOOD • Tri-Tip Steak
FAVORITE COLOR • Blue
FAVORITE MUSIC • Classical
HOBBIES • Fishing, hunting, riding, football/soccer
STRENGTHS • Good with animals, optimistic
WEAKNESSES • Can sometimes be hot tempered, and is a very proud person
FUN FACT • Extremely ticklish. Seriously. A poke in the ribs is enough to set him off.
PET PEEVES • Ignorant people, racism, animal abuse and people who kill spiders in the house rather than putting them outside >:c
FAVORITE HANGOUTS • In the farm house's library, or in the kennels with his dogs (who he adores to pieces).
Matthew was born in England to two rich parents. His father bred horses, though didn't compete them, and that's were Matthew gained his interest in all things equestrian. He learned to ride from an early age, however with the pressure from his father to finish school and college he didn't start competing until he was nineteen. His shows started off small and local, but by the age of twenty one he was competing on an international level.
It was around this time that Matt emigrated to the USA and began looking for properties to buy up to start his own stables with. He "fell in love" with a derelict colonial farm that was set to be demolished and built up again, so purchased it and set to work rebuilding the damaged estate as soon as possible.
The rebuilding of the house finally finished 2009, and whilst the stables were being re-established the following year Matt began to visit state horse shows and auctions to look for horses to buy, train, breed and compete. It was at one of these horse shows that he met Ruth Ledger, a budding young American horse competitor, and the pair hit it off instantly. By October 2011 they were married, moved in together, a running Linden Farms Equestrian Centre together in a joint partnership.
As far as personality goes, Matthew is generally an easy person to get along with. He is a very loyal and honest person (though his honesty can sometimes be quite brutal), and despite coming from a rich, upper-class background he isn't in the slightest a snob, and is quite humble. He is very proud of his achievements and his family, and can be quite easily offended if people choose to target those things, but other than that he's very easy going with a good sense of humour - someone who can take a joke, and look on the bright side of things. Perhaps his main downfall would be how stubborn he is - he can often refuse to see things from others' point of view, and prefers things to be done his way. If things don't go right he's not one to take the blame, and will often try and pin the faults on someone else, with his excuse being "if they'd listened to me, this wouldn't have happened".