CROWE, Catherine Ann (dau. of John Stevens of Clarges street, Piccadilly, London). b. Englefield Green, Kent 1790; lived in Edinburgh many years; a disciple of George Combe; one of the persons to whom authorship of The Vestiges of Creation was attributed 1841; author of Aristodemus, a tragedy 1838, anon.; The adventures of Susan Hopley 3 vols. 1841, a dramatic version of this novel entitled Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl by Dibdin Pitt was produced at the Victoria theatre, London 31 May 1841 and played more than 300 nights; Men and women, or manorial rights 3 vols. 1843; The Seerest of Prevorst, translated from Kerner 1845; The story of Lilly Dawson 2 vols. 1847; The night side of nature, or Ghosts and ghost seers 2 vols. 1848, several eds.; Light and darkness or mysteries of life 3 vols. 1850; The adventures of a beauty, a novel 3 vols. 1852; The cruel kindness, a drama in 5 acts performed at Haymarket theatre, June 6, 1853; Linny Lockwood 2 vols. 1853; Spiritualism and the age we live in 1859; Adventures of a monkey 1861 and many books for children. (m. Oct. 1822 in London, lieut.-col. John Crowe who d. 7 March 1860). Resided at 22 Sandgate road, Folkestone, where she became bedridden and died of natural decay on 14 June 1872; Her son and only child Capt. John William Crowe is resident Leonard lodge, Dover road, Folkestone 1888. Victoria Mag. xxxiii, 35–44 (1879); Colburn’s New monthly mag. xcvi, 439–45 (1852).
CROWE, Eyre Evans (son of David Crowe, captain in H.E.I.Co.’s army). b. Redbridge, Southampton 20 March 1799; ed. at Carlow and Trin. coll. Dublin; Paris correspondent of Morning Chronicle 1832–44, joined staff of Daily News 1846, editor 1849–51; author of The pleasures of Melancholy, and a Saxon tale 1819; To-day in Ireland 1825; Yesterday in Ireland 1829; The History of France 3 vols. 1830–31 and Lives of Foreign Statesmen 1833 both in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia; Connemara 1843; Charles Delmer, a story of the day 1853; The Greek and the Turk or powers and prospects in the Levant 1853; History of the reigns of Louis xviii and Charles x 2 vols. 1854; The History of France 5 vols. 1858–68. d. 56 Beaumont st. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1868.
CROWE, John. Ensign 32 foot 7 Aug. 1800, captain 30 May 1805 to 4 May 1826; major on h.p. 4 May 1826; served in Peninsula, July 1811 to end of the war 1814; lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837; retired 1846; K.H. 1837. d. Fairlea villa near Bideford 7 March 1860 aged 77.
CROWE, Sir John Rice. Served in the Russian navy 6 years; British vice-consul at Hamerfest in Norway, May 1824, consul there 14 March 1837; consul general in Norway 16 Aug. 1843 to 2 April 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 5 Dec. 1859; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. d. near Christiania 10 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Times 24 Jany. 1877 p. 6, col. 4.
CROWFOOT, Rev. John Rustat (son of Wm. Henchman Crowfoot of Beccles, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Beccles, 21 Feb. 1817; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, fellow of his college 1840–52; C. of Eynesbury, Hunts. 1840–47; C. of St. Mary the Great, Cam. 1852–54; P.C. of Southwold, Suffolk 1854–60; V. of Wangfordcum-Reydon, Suffolk 1860 to death; published Remarks on the University of Cambridge 1848; Academic notes on Holy Scripture 1st series 1850; Plea for a colonial college at Cambridge 1854; Fragmenta Evangelica 1870; Observations on the collation in Greek of Cureton’s Syriac Fragments of the Gospels 1872. d. Wangford vicarage 18 March 1875.
CROWLEY, Abraham. Head of brewing firm of A. Crowley and Co. at Alton, Hants.; many refreshment houses were established in London and other places which especially supplied Crowley’s ales; built and supported a British school for 150 girls at Alton 1845. d. Alton 6 May 1864 aged 70. Hampshire Chronicle 14 May 1864 p. 5.
CROWLEY, Nicholas Joseph (3 son of Peter Crowley of Dublin). b. Dublin 6 Dec. 1819; a pupil of Royal Dublin Society; exhibited 46 pictures at the R.A. 1835–57; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1838; painted several portraits of Daniel O’Connell 1844; painted ‘Taking the Veil’ for St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin 1845, in the background of this picture there is a portrait of himself; many of his pictures were engraved and lithographed. d. 13 Upper Fitzroy st. London 4 Nov. 1857.
CROWLEY, Peter O’Neill (son of Mr. Crowley of Ballymacoda, co. Cork, tenant farmer). b. Ballymacoda 23 May 1832; a farmer; joined the Fenian movement; one of the party who attacked Knockadoon coastguard station 5 March 1867; mortally wounded in a fight with the constabulary in Kilclooney wood, co. Cork 31 March 1867. d. Mitchelstown 31 March 1867. bur. at Ballymacoda 2 April. John Savage’s Fenian heroes and martyrs (1868) 262–66, 273–80.
CROWTHER, Rev. Jonathan (son of Rev. Timothy Crowther of St. Austell, Cornwall, methodist minister 1757–1829). b. St. Austell 31 July 1794; ed. at Kingswood school, Gloucs.; head master Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford 1814–16; head master of Kingswood sch. 1823; general superintendent of Wesleyan missions in India 1837–43; classical tutor in Wesleyan Theological Institution at Didsbury, Lancs. 1849; edited London Quarterly Review; author of The Methodist manual 1810, 2 ed. 1811; A defence of the Wesleyan Theological institution, 3 ed. 1834; Sermons 1839. d. at house of Rev. Wm. Williams at Leeds 16 Jany. 1856. The Pulpit iv, (1825), portrait; Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 92–6.
CROZIER, Richard (eld. son of Rawson Bodham Crozier of West hill, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 1775–1849). b. 26 Aug. 1803; entered navy 1 Nov. 1813; captain 20 March 1839; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; K.T.S. May 1824. d. Westhill 3 Feb. 1880.