He was educated at Kingswood School, then in Gloucestershire, and began to preach aged about 20.
[1] In 1837 Crowther was appointed general superintendent of the Wesleyan missions in India, returning to England in 1843 in poor health, where he was again employed in the home ministry.
In 1849 he was appointed classical tutor in the Wesleyan Theological Institution at Didsbury, Lancashire.
He acted as examiner at Wesley College, Sheffield, as well as at the New Kingswood and Woodhouse Grove schools, and wrote for Wesleyan periodicals.
His health failed some time before his death, and on 31 December 1855 he was seized with "congestion of the brain" while on a visit to the Rev.