Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy CB QHP FRIPH (19 November 1923 – 28 June 2009) was a British soldier and military doctor, and Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College.
The son of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R. Crowdy, by his marriage to Kate Porter, Joseph Porter Crowdy was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (1933–1942), and the University of Edinburgh (1942–1947).
[1] Crowdy was a house surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital from 1947 to 1948, before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1949.
He was next Senior Medical Officer, Land Forces Cyprus (1976–1978), then Director of Army Preventative (Medicine 1978–1981) before his final posting as Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College (1985–1988).
[1][2] In 1948, Crowdy married Beryl Elisabeth Sapsford (died 1997); they had four daughters.