Frederick Crowe

Frederick Joseph William Crowe FRAS FRHistS (1862–1931) was an English organist.

A man of wide and varied interests, Crowe taught at Bishop Otter College of Education and at Chichester School in the Pallants.

In 1904 he founded a Cathedral Oratorio Society, and later that year was centrally involved in bringing together in Chichester the choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester for a special service to mark the re-opening of the main organ after its restoration by Hele of Plymouth (this was the start of the Three Choirs Festival, now known as Southern Cathedrals Festival).

It was possibly because of Crowe's West Country connections that Hele was selected to carry out the work on the organ in 1904.

Crowe's salary on appointment was £150; this had risen to £200 by the time he retired, but Frederick Read was reappointed at £160.