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CROYDEN, WILLIAM, brother of Thomas Croyden (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1633; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1636, adm. pens. 19 May 1636, scholar 1637; BA 1639/40; MA 1643; Minor Fellow Trin. Coll. 1640, Major Fellow 1641, Tutor 1644-55 [check], a Senior Fellow by order of House of Commons 6 Nov 1645-c. 1651 [check], Senior Bursar 1647-50, Proctor 1647, 1650; will proved PCC 2 Jun 1657 (gentleman, Wilbraham, Cambs. ).

CROYDEN, THOMAS, son of George Croyden, Templecombe, Somerset; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1631, adm. scholar 1631, matr. Easter 1632; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1637-45, ejected, Tutor 1640-1; practising medicine at Padua 1647-50, MD Padua 30 Oct 1648 (incorp. Oxford 6 Dec 1652); FRCP 22 Dec 1657, Censor 1664, 1665, 1668, 1670, 1672; d. c. 1679.

CROYDEN, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Croyden (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt. ) ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1650 (?); BA 1638; MA 1641; Under Master, Westminster School 1642-5; submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648; “absent on leave” when required to subscribe the engagement in Feb 1650/1 (Burrows, p. 329); LLD Padua 20 Mar 1656/7 (incorp. DCL Oxford 4 Nov 1662); ordained; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford from 14 Dec 1666, subsequently also Treasurer, Christ Church; m. 10 Jul 1660 (IGI) Eleanor [or Elizabeth ?] (IGI), widow of Thomas Garfoot, Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex, and sister of Sir John Heydon, Governor of the Bermuda Company; d. 14 Jun 1678. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

CROWE, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1672.

Crowe, George Lawson, son of George Wyndham Crowe, M. D., of Worcester, by Marian, daughter of William Price-Hughes, of Northwick Hall, Worcester; b. Jan. 8, 1885; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 22, 1898; left July 1903; Non-Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1903; migrated to Trin. Coll. Dublin; B.A. 1909; a schoolmaster; played cricket for Worcestershire 1906-14; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. Worcs Regt. Jan. 20, 1915; Capt. and Adjt. June 1916-Jan. 1919; m. July 11, 1916, Muriel Maud, daughter of William Homer Caldicott, J. P., of Worcester.

CROWDY, FRANCIS DEMAINBRAY, brother of Ernest Alfred Crowdy (qv); b. 17 Sep 1857; adm. 26 Jan 1871 (James'); QS 1872; left Apr 1876; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1877; played Association Football against Cambridge 1877, 1880; BA 1881; MA and MB 1885; MD 1889; St. Thomas’s Hospital; MRCS LSA 1885; practised at Torquay; m. 8 Apr 1896 Florence Mary, dau. of John Brewer Saunders, Torquay.

CROWCH, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; failed to obtain election to either university 1639.

Crow, Colin Arthur, brother of Alwyn Douglas Crow (q.v.); b. June 12, 1896; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1909; elected to Trin. Coll. (with Samwaies) July 1914, matric. Michaelmas 1914; scholar (Mech. Science) 1914; temp. Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Air Service) July 16, 1915; Lieut. Jan. 30, 1917; Pilot Officer (Training) R.A.F.V.R. March 30, 1941; resigned Nov. 18, 1942; m. March 25, 1948, Alice Garnett.

Crow, Sir Alwyn Douglas, son of John Kent Crow, D.Sc., of Blackheath, Kent, by Ethel Mary, daughter of John Bannister-Sly, of Grove Park, Kent; b. May 10, 1894; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1908; left (with Triplett) July 1913; Queens' Coll. Camb., exhibitioner 1913, matric. Michaelmas 1913; B.A. 1921; M.A. 1924; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. East Surrey Regt. Oct. 20, 1914; Lieut. Nov. 28, 1914; Capt. Nov. 12, 1915; served in France April - Sept. 1916, when he was wounded at Delville Wood, Somme, Sept. 15, 1916, and became unfit for further active service; mentioned in despatches; asst. Prof. and Experimental Officer Woolwich 1917-8; Director of Ballistic Research, War Office June 1919-39; O. B. E. June 3, 1918; Sc. D. 1932; Controller of Projectile Development, Ministry of Supply, 1940-5; Head of Technical Services, Brit. Joint Services Mission, Washington, 1946-53; C.B.E. 1937; knighted July 4, 1944; U. S. Medal of Freedom 1948; m. 1st Oct. 20, 1923, Kathleen Christiana, sister of Noel Edgar Barraclough (q.v.); 2nd Oct. 11, 1958, Mrs. Frances Gore Haynes, of Washington, U. S. A.

CROSSE, JOHN, son of Oliver Crosse, Ware, Herts., and Agnes ---; b.; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050); QS; a contributor to the congratulatory verses by QSS to Queen Elizabeth c. 1586 (Hatfield, Salisbury MSS).