Background
Crowden was born in Tilney All Saints, near Wisbech. He grew up in Peterborough and attended King"s School before going on to Bedford School.
Crowden was born in Tilney All Saints, near Wisbech. He grew up in Peterborough and attended King"s School before going on to Bedford School.
Pembroke College; Bedford School.
He was Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. He then went to Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1951 he was part of the winning Cambridge boat in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in the year when Oxford sank, and the umpire stopped the race and ordered a rerow the following Monday.
He was in the Boat Race again in 1952, when Cambridge lost and he competed in the coxless fours at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Crowden became the Cambridge crew"s coach for the next 20 years. Crowden followed in the family profession, and became a chartered surveyor with a firm of auctioneers.
He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely in 1970 and was Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 3 July 1992 to 2002. Crowden is a vice-president of the British Olympic Association and a Steward of Henley Regatta.
He was involved with the Cambridgeshire Olympic Committee, and with Peterborough Rowing Club.