CROWE, SIR EYRE ALEXANDER Brit ish civil servant, was born at Leipzig, July 30, 1864. Educated at Dusseldorf, Berlin and Paris, he entered the Foreign Office in 1885, became counsellor of embassy in 1907, and assistant under secretary of State in 1912. He was a British delegate at the sec ond Hague Conference of 1907 and at the International Naval Conference held in London in 1908. He conducted the British case in the arbitration of 1911 regarding the recapture in France of the Indian agitator Savarkar, and was created K.C.M.G. Though his mother and wife were German, he was a vigilant critic of German foreign policy, and before the World War prepared an impressive memorandum for the Cabinet on the subject, whilst his scheme for seizing German shipping in British ports was adopted when the crisis came. He was one of the com mittee of six who drew up for Great Britain a draft convention of the League of Nations, and he took part in the Paris Peace Con ference. In 192o he was promoted G.C.M.G. and became perm anent under-secretary for foreign affairs. He died April 28, 1925.
See his correspondence and memoranda in British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914, ed. G. P. Gooch and H. W. V. Temperley (1926) .