Major John Whitby Cradock was an English cook, writer and broadcaster and the fourth husband of television cook and writer Fanny Cradock.

Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer. She frequently appeared on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with her fourth husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.