Henry Woodfall Crowe (April 29, 1832 – November 7, 1865) was a British-Norwegian interpreter, translator, and author.
Biography
Crowe was born in
Kåfjord,
Norway, the son of
John Rice Crowe (1795–1877) and Malene Marie Waad (1802–1843).[1] Together with
Henry Dick Woodfall, his father started the company
Alten Copper Works near
Alta around 1826.[1][2] The company was later renamed the Kåfjord Copper Works. Henry Woodfall Crowe was named after his father's business partner.[1]
He participated in the
Crimean War in 1854 and 1855 as the interpreter general to the British fleet. Crowe's diary of his experiences on the warship
HMS Duke of Wellington during the war was issued as a book in 2012 by one of his relatives. At the time, The Duke of Wellington was the world's largest battleship[3] and the ship's commander,
Charles Napier, was a legend in his own time.[4]
Crowe later served as the British consul in
Helsinki.[5]
The Bothnia Pilot, by Admiral G. af Klint, translated by C. Bernard Coster, revised by Henry Woodfall Crowe (1855)
The Crimean War Journals (1854–1855) of Henry Woodfall Crowe on Board H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, researched and transcribed by Bernard Robert Crowe (2012)