Norman Harry Crowder (20 October 1926 – 10 February 2013) was Archdeacon of Portsmouth from 1985 to 1993.[1]
Born in Nottingham on 20 October 1926,[2] he was educated at Nottingham High School and St John's College, Cambridge. After National Service with the RAF Educational Service[3] he was ordained in 1952.[4] He was an Assistant Curate St Mary's, Radcliffe-on-Trent and then Residential Chaplain to the Bishop of Portsmouth until 1959. He was Chaplain at Canford School from 1959 until [5] 1972 when he became Vicar of St John's, Oakfield, Ryde.[6] From 1975 to 1985 he was Director of Religious Education in the Portsmouth Diocese and a Residential Canon of its Cathedral. After this he became Archdeacon of Portsmouth.
He died in Salisbury on 10 February 2013.[7] He had married Pauline. Their son Richard worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office