The son of an Army officer of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Crowe was born in Southampton and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Alongside American John Neal, he was one of two to exhibit the publisher's desired style notably well.
[2] Crowe commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press as Paris correspondent for the Morning Chronicle in 1832,[3] and he afterwards became a leading contributor to The Examiner and the Daily News.
He published Lives of Foreign Statesmen (1830), The Greek and the Turk (1853), and Reigns of Louis XVIII.
It was founded upon original sources, in order to consult which the author resided for a considerable time in Paris.