The grandson of William Henchman Crowfoot (often cited as Henchman Crowfoot) (qv), and the elder son of William Edward Crowfoot (qv). The Crowfoots of Beccles were well known as medical men in East Anglia for more than a century, and each generation followed worthily in the footsteps of its fathers. Crowfoot was educated at Fauconberge School, Beccles, and then at Basle; he received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where his student career was brilliant, for he won exhibitions and scholarships with ease. In 1857 he won the University of London Gold Medal in Anatomy and Physiology at the Intermediate MB examination, and in 1859 the Gold Medal in Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery - carrying with it an Exhibition - and the Gold Medal in Midwifery. He was offered an appointment at St Bartholomew's Hospital immediately after graduating, but preferred to enter into practice with his father at Beccles, where he greatly increased an already large number of patients. He was for many years Surgeon to the Beccles Hospital, of which he was Hon Consulting Surgeon at the time of his death. As a medical practitioner he gained the affection and confidence of a large circle of patients. Always keeping himself abreast of medical knowledge and procedure, his opinions were received with marked attention by his colleagues, and his wide experience was always at the disposal of his younger brethren. Michael Beverley, MRCS, who was associated with him professionally for over fifty years, bore witness to his popularity in the medical circle at Norwich and to his high social and scientific qualifications. Crowfoot was an enthusiastic naturalist, botanist, and archeologist, and an early supporter of the Volunteer movement which started in 1860, and in which he held the rank of Hon Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a sound public man, both as a magistrate, and as a worker on Borough and County Councils and on Diocesan Committees. To the proceedings of medical meetings in Norwich he contributed many valuable papers, and among these his address as President of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association was a signal success. He married Catherine Ann Bayly, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. One son, William Bayly, followed in his father's footsteps and joined him in practice, but died in 1907. One daughter married H Wood-Hill, practising in Beccles, and another daughter married N E Waterfield, FRCS. He died, after his retirement, at his residence, Blyburgate House, Beccles, on April 6th, 1918, and his funeral was attended by the Mayor and Corporation in state.