Background
Crowder was the son of Sir John Crowder, a Conservative Member of Parliament and predecessor as Member of Parliament for Finchley of Margaret Thatcher.
Crowder was the son of Sir John Crowder, a Conservative Member of Parliament and predecessor as Member of Parliament for Finchley of Margaret Thatcher.
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford just as his father was before him.
He became a barrister, called by Inner Temple in 1948. He was appointed Recorder of Gravesend in 1960, chairman of the Hertfordshire Quarter sessions in 1963 and became Queen"s Counsel in 1964. He served until 1979, preceding John Wilkinson.
Patricia (d 2007), daughter of William Stourton, 25th Baron Mowbray, by whom he had two sons.
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Crowder contested Tottenham North in a 1945 by-election and was elected as Member of Parliament for the Conservative safe seat of Ruislip-Northwood in 1950.