Frederick Crowley

Frederick Hugh Crowley (31 December 1890 – 5 May 1945) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1927 to 1945.

He was Educated at the North Monastery School, Cork, and the University of Leeds (1909–12), he graduated with a diploma in textile industry (July 1912) and moved to Rathmore, County Kerry, where his family then resided.

A member of Kerry County Council from 1917, he took the anti-treaty side in the Irish Civil War and joined Fianna Fáil at its foundation.

[3] After his death, the by-election in Kerry South on 4 December 1945 was won for Fianna Fáil by his widow, Honor Crowley.

Honor Crowley, a daughter of the MP John Pius Boland, remained a TD until her death in 1966.