Born on December 9th, 1806, the son of W Henchman Crowfoot (qv). He was educated at the Grammar School, Norwich, under Dr Valpy. Subsequently he received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and began practice with his father at Beccles, where he remained to the end of his long life. Besides being an excellent and much esteemed medical practitioner, he began to engage actively in local affairs at an early period of his career. He joined the Town Council in 1844, was elected Alderman on the retirement of his father, and thrice filled the Mayoral office (1845, 1852, 1853). For several years he was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Guardians for the Wangford Union. Appointed a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk in 1871, he was constant in his attendance on the Bench up to the closing month of his life. He was warmly interested in the education of the working classes and in all movements tending to their improvement. He was a man of very considerable mental ability. His mind, by nature scholarly, had been assiduously cultivated and enriched by reading and European travel. At the time of his death he was a Vice-President of the British Medical Association, East Anglian Branch (President in 1856), and Consulting Surgeon to the Beccles Hospital, which he had actively supported for half a century and more. He enjoyed a large consulting practice. His death, after a short illness, occurred at Beccles on May 12th, 1887, after he had retired from active practice. He was survived by three sons and two daughters.