He was the managing director for Intertype Ltd., a leading producer of typesetting machines in the United Kingdom[1] from World War II through until the late 1980s.

[3] Philip Crowley was born in Lewisham in the suburbs of South London to the already elderly Victorian stockbroker, James Lewis Crowley, and his second wife Kate Nind Ward.

Isabel died in 1901, and James remarried the next year Philip Crowley met his wife, Ruth Graham, in 1924 and they married in 1925.

Then merely the daughter firm of an American selling agency, Intertype comprised three rooms in King's Cross.

Crowley was considered both a kind and proficient boss at Intertype,[5] and the company enjoyed considerable success during his period of management, selling Intertype typesetting machines to almost every major newspaper that operated in the southern half of Britain during that time.