John Rice Crowe

Sir John Rice Crowe (November 20, 1795 – January 10, 1877) was an English businessman and diplomat who spent much of his life in Norway.

[1][2] Together with Henry Dick Woodfall, John Rice Crowe started the company Alten Copper Works near Alta around 1826.

After serving for six years as a British diplomat in Russia, Crowe became the deputy vice-consul in Hammerfest in 1824.

[2] His daughter Anna Cecilie Crowe (1829–1914) was married to major Norwegian industrialist Halvor Schou.

[3] His son Septimus Crowe (1842–1903) was British Vice Consul and acting Consul-General in Christiania, but emigrated to Mexico in the 1880s.